It's sad replying to my own question [of sorts] but...
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
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> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Dmitry Tkach wrote:
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> > Neil Conway wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 13:07:20 -0400
> >> "Dmitry Tkach" <dmitry@openratings.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> First of all, a question for you - is ANY update to a table equivalent (in
> this respect) to a delete+insert?
> >
> >> Yes, AFAIK -- MVCC requires this.
> >
> > What's MVCC?
>
> Funny, I was about to ask that question. Something about variable size of
> fields in the physical storage?
I've remembered, alsmot: Multi Version ConCurrency?
[plenty deleted from those quoted messages but they you all realised that or
don't care]
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Nigel J. Andrews
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