Re: PgSQL MVCC vs MySQL InnoDB

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
Subject: Re: PgSQL MVCC vs MySQL InnoDB
Date: 2004-10-25 21:42:17
Message-ID: 417D7339.7040506@bigfoot.com
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Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 01:15:33PM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
>>On 10/25/2004 11:53 AM, nd02tsk(at)student(dot)hig(dot)se wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is this true?
>>
>>From a functional point of view, the two appear to do the same thing.
>
>
> Well, except for one difference. InnoDB will allow you refer to
> tables not controlled by the InnoDB table handler, whereas we don't
> have that problem with MVCC.

From MySQL gotchas:

1) And the same "feature" allow also to start a transaction, mix the two
tables and have a warning only after the "rollback" about the inability
destroy the updates done on non INNODB tables.

2) Create or delete and index or alter a table will recreate the entire
table.

3) Our rollback is a O(1) operation not O(N) where N is the operations
performed during the transaction

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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