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From: Ellen Allhatatlan <ellenallhatatlan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:16:51 +0100
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Subject: Re: MVCC and all that...
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>
Cc: Justin <zzzzz.graf@gmail.com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
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You, (Merlin Moncure) said:

> Technical discussions from the 80's are more or less historically interesting only.

I agree with your technical points - and the fact that I brought up "history".

I was replying to Justin in this context:

I wrote:

> AIUI, Michael Stonebraker suggested that the process model
> would/should be "upgraded" to a threaded one at some point in the
> system's developement?

To which Justin replied:

> I am going to need a source on this.  Process vs Threads: pro and cons are very well documented and proven today.

Hence the history lesson - to provide the "source" from Michael Stonebraker

HTH.

> merlin

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El!