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Are there any educational transactional databases?
Are there any educational transactional databases for databases, just as there is educational OS xv6 for OS?
I would like one that implements MVCC and recovery of transaction.
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How to configure InnoDB/MariaDB to not fill ibdata1 with (rollback/undo?) data that is useless in an in-memory database? [closed]
I'm trying to run a tiny (~100-200 MB) database in-memory, but ibdata1 grows out of control.
Situation: MariaDB is running on a resource constrained HW (Raspberry, 1GB RAM), storing non-critical ...
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What is "special" about PostgreSQL update vs delete+insert
My understanding is that an update locks a tuple, marks it as deleted, and then adds a new tuple.
In other words, update = delete + insert.
Or so I had believe. But it appears there something ...
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Are snapshots generated for each sub query inside a Postgres READ_COMMITTED transaction?
From what I understand - in a READ_COMMITTED Postgres transaction “the transaction obtains a snapshot whenever an SQL command is executed” source. Does this mean a snapshot will be obtained for each ...
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Is there a reliable way to determine the order in which Postgres transactions were committed without logical decoding?
Is there a reliable way to determine the serial order in which Postgres transactions were committed without logical decoding? From what I understand pg_xact_commit_timestamp can’t necessarily be ...
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Is it possible to have xid before and after wrap around with the same timestamp?
I want to create sync API in which users can get the changes since their last sync request, the API exposes cursor-based pagination (sync token)
A possible cursor may be to use updatedAt column along ...
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Benchmarking MariaDB/InnoDB using TATP - Writers slow down readers?
I'm benchmarking MariaDB 10.4 with TATP. The InnoDB config file has the following parameters set:
[mysqld]
innodb_data_home_dir=/usr/local/mysql/data
innodb_undo_directory=/usr/local/mysql/data
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How do writers not block reads in PostgreSql
Since readers do not block writers and writers do not block readers is what MVCC is all about, how does postgresql prevent writers who are in the process of committing their changes to blocks/pages ...
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InnoDB undo logs vs history list
I was reading about InnoDB undo logs, and in the process, the articles i was reading ended up confusing me on what undo logs are, and how they are different from the history list, or rather the same.
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Flags UPDATE optimization for MVCC
We have a table with 200k rows where we change some flags multiple times per day.
If i have understood correctly an UPDATE on postgres is a DELETE+INSERT on disk.
I'm wondering if this is highly ...
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Does SQL Server use multiversion concurrency control (MVCC)?
Reading an older overview of CouchDB published on the IBM site HERE, I was surprised to find the following:
Most modern databases have started to move from locking mechanisms to
MVCC, including ...
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Does Amazon Redshift support MVCC?
According to documentation, Amazon Redshift is derived from PostgreSQL 8.
PosgreSQL 8 supports Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC) which is in my understanding achieved on physical level by ...
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Postgres 40001 Exception Conditional Insert
I have 3 tables, A,B and C. A function actOnABC(i) which is a read only operation on the tables:
IF actOnABC(i) = 0 THEN
RAISE EXCEPTION 'Message';
ELSE
INSERT INTO TABLE B VALUES(...);
END ...
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Does H2 Database support pessimistic locking?
Does the H2 Database support pessimistic locking?
If so, how does its use interact with H2’s MVCC implementation?
I'm not looking for advice on whether or not to use pessimistic locking. I have a ...
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Is `count(*)` ever guaranteed to return the same result in a transaction at any transaction level?
If I create a table.
CREATE TABLE foo AS
SELECT CASE WHEN random() > 0.5 THEN x END AS x
FROM generate_series(1,10) AS x;
And, then I run the following in a transaction
BEGIN;
SELECT count(*)
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MVCC in PostgreSQL: visible tuple with xmin > current txid
I'm trying to better understand MVCC and am confused by the following (contrived) scenario. I was under the impression that for a row to be visible to a transaction, the transaction's id must be ...
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Why is ACCESS EXCLUSIVE LOCK necessary in PostgreSQL?
I know PostgreSQL provides multiple lock modes for concurrency control. When I read through their documents, I cannot see why the ACCESS EXCLUSIVE lock is necessary in any case. The only difference ...
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What is the impact of DROP SCHEMA on concurrent read only workloads in PostgreSQL?
I have an ELT process that deals with a pretty small amount of data. I would like to have 1 schema called prod with the results of the previous ELT run and 1 schema called dev where I will perform the ...
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InnoDB MVCC vs Locking
From what I understand you InnoDB supports
Row Level Locking
MVCC (Multiversion Concurrency Control)
Row Level Locking
Locking is for when multiple writers are trying to update the same
rows. ...
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How exactly the row visibility is determined?
In the simplest case, when we insert a new row into a table (and the transaction commits), it will be visible to all subsequent transactions. See xmax being 0 in this example:
CREATE TABLE vis (
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