Subject Re[2]: [Firebird-Architect] Supported transaction isolation levels?
Author Dmitry Kuzmenko
Hello, Thomas!

Tuesday, April 5, 2005, 11:55:50 PM, you wrote:

TS> Do you remember, whether the snapshot isolation level in Yukon is based
TS> on a "full" MVCC implementation or is it something comparable to
TS> Oracle's MVRC (Multi-Version Read Consistency), which is AFAIK a bit
TS> different.

As I understood, it is very similar to Interbase/Firebird MVCC
behavior, less than Oracle's. I'm not sure that it is 100%
same as in IB/FB, but looks the same (90%). If so,
all our sweep and garbage collection "problems" will wait
for Yukon users :-)

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Dmitri Kouzmenko, www.ibanalyst.com