RE: Plans for solving the VACUUM problem

At 10:00 AM 5/24/01 -0700, Mikheev, Vadim wrote:
>> >> Impractical ? Oracle does it.
>> >
>> >Oracle has MVCC?
>> 
>> With restrictions, yes.
>
>What restrictions? Rollback segments size?
>Non-overwriting smgr can eat all disk space...

Actually, the restriction I'm thinking about isn't MVCC related, per
se, but a within-transaction restriction.  The infamous "mutating table"
error.

>> You didn't know that?  Vadim did ...
>
>Didn't I mention a few times that I was
>inspired by Oracle? -:)

Yes, you most certainly have!



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