>>>>> "Jonah" == Jonah H Harris <jharris@tvi.edu> writes:
Jonah> Replying to the list as a whole:
Jonah> If this is such a bad idea, why do other database systems Jonah> use it? As a businessperson myself, it
doesn'tseem Jonah> logical to me that commercial database companies would Jonah> spend money on implementing this
featureif it wouldn't be Jonah> used. Remember guys, I'm just trying to help.
Systems like DB2 don't implement versioning schemes. As a result there
is no need to worry about maintaining visibility in
indexes. Index-only plans are thus viable as they require no change in
the physical structure of the index and no overhead on
update/delete/insert ops.
I don't know about Oracle, which I gather is the only commercial
system to have something like MVCC.
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