"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Firebird guys have gotten around to releasing 1.0. If you read this > front page spiel, you'll notice that they use MVCC, but with an overwriting > storage manager.
Yup. I've had a couple of long chats with Ann Harrison at the recent "OSDB summit" meetings. I think we each came away enlightened about the other implementation, but not in any large hurry to change our own. I did steal at least one idea from her, though. (rummages in CVS logs) ah, here's a hit: 2001-09-29 19:49 tgl * src/backend/access/nbtree/nbtinsert.c: Tweak btree page split logic so that when splitting a page that is rightmost on its tree level, we split 2/3 to the left and 1/3 to the new right page, rather than the even split we use elsewhere. The idea is that when faced with a steadily increasing series of inserted keys (such as sequence or timestamp values), we'll end up with a btree that's about 2/3ds full not 1/2 full, which is much closer to the desired steady-state load for a btree. Per suggestion from Ann Harrison of IBPhoenix. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]