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Re: computational model of transactions

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 4 Aug 2006 10:26:24 -0700
Message-ID: <1154712384.843649.326550@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 





Erwin wrote:

>




> AFAICT, MVCC is only safe to use in transactions that don't update

> anything, i.e. transactions that do *nothing but reads*.




Um, if we are doing nothing but reads, we don't need any concurrency
controls at all. Everything can read everything all the time safely, if
there are no writes going on. So it kind of seems like above you're
saying MVCC is a no-op.




Marshall
Received on Fri Aug 04 2006 - 12:26:24 CDT












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