Re: PGSQL Locking vs. Oracle's MVCC - Mailing list pgsql-general

RPK wrote:
> How is PGSQL Locking compared with Oracle's MVCC? How PGSQL handles
> concurreny and how it differs with Oracle's Multi-Version Concurrency
> Control (MVCC)?

PostgreSQL uses MVCC.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/mvcc.html


Joshua D. Drake



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