Re: PGSQL Locking vs. Oracle's MVCC

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: RPK <rohitprakash123(at)indiatimes(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: PGSQL Locking vs. Oracle's MVCC
Date: 2007-02-23 16:33:47
Message-ID: 45DF176B.6050402@commandprompt.com
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RPK wrote:
> How is PGSQL Locking compared with Oracle's MVCC? How PGSQL handles
> concurreny and how it differs with Oracle's Multi-Version Concurrency
> Control (MVCC)?

PostgreSQL uses MVCC.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/mvcc.html

Joshua D. Drake

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