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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: David Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: MVCC snapshot timing
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:29:49 -0500
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On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 03:36:01PM -0800, David Johnston wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote
> > We just want to get across the MVCC concept in the intro --- we cover
> > the snapshots later in the document.
> 
> I just think we're being too vague here; and we are covering them in the
> intro with the use of "some point in the past".
> 
> IMO, the main point regarding MVCC is that every change in the system
> creates a new record and causes a prior record to be invalidated at a
> point-in-time.  The combination of these two things increases concurrency
> since you can create new records while people are still using the old ones. 
> One consequence, though, is that it is necessary for the user to decide at
> what point in the timeline they want to view the database.
> 
> Does this sound right?

I still do not see how this fits appropriately in the introduction.

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