Re: SQL:2011 application time

From: Corey Huinker <corey(dot)huinker(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Paul A Jungwirth <pj(at)illuminatedcomputing(dot)com>
Cc: Vik Fearing <vik(at)postgresfriends(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Jaime Casanova <jcasanov(at)systemguards(dot)com(dot)ec>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: SQL:2011 application time
Date: 2022-01-06 18:52:30
Message-ID: CADkLM=cDpJ=Q_wVgsG3MxB4PRKcprnoJ_zJuAWCpxA-pyj88dQ@mail.gmail.com
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>
> But
> the standard says that dropping system versioning should automatically
> drop all historical records (2 under Part 2: Foundation, 11.30 <drop
> system versioning clause>). That actually makes sense though: when you
> do DML we automatically update the start/end columns, but we don't
> save copies of the previous data (and incidentally the end column will
> always be the max value.)

This is what I was referring to when I mentioned a side-table.
deleting history would be an O(1) operation. Any other
misunderstandings are all mine.

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