Hi Andrew,
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 07:49 -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> Because in the general case, you need the intermediate rows. The
> problem is that you'd have to write a special piece of code to catch
> the case where nobody else can see the row that you're about to
> expire, and that test isn't free. Therefore, you do it the same way
> any other row gets expired.
Just curious: is there a way to defeat MVCC? i.e., if you can lock the
database exclusively, there won't be any readers or writers?
Joe