Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source

> Apparently they were formed out of DEC in 1985, with the notion of
> doing a "multi-generational" model from the beginning.
> 
> I don't know enough Postgres history to answer.  Obviously, MVCC
> is new but the way that tuples are stored, which made MVCC fairly
> simple to implement (for Vadim, at least!), has been part of 
> Postgres from the beginning.  
> 
> And, again, my information on Interbase comes from a VERY quick
> read of docs and a white paper found on their site, take my 
> quick-hit analysis with a grain of salt, please!

Yes, MVCC was natural for us.

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