Re: Comparison of PGSQL and DB2 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: Comparison of PGSQL and DB2
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In response to Re: Comparison of PGSQL and DB2  (Josh Berkus <josh@postgresql.org>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@postgresql.org> writes:
> Please!   Reverse Engineering.    I can't imagine that anyone got a look at
> Oracle's code.
>
> Hmmm ... I'd always had the impression that MVCC came out of Berkeley.
> Possibly mistaken, I wasn't around.

MVCC is a reasonably well known concurrency control technique -- it is
described in the DBMS literature, etc. It is by no means a PostgreSQL
invention.

-Neil


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