Re: MVCC and index-only read

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Jonah H. Harris <jonah.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sounds like they're borrowing the code from innodb that does much the
>> same thing.  In Innodb, if a field is indexed, it lives only as an
>> index, not in the table and an index at the same time.
>
> They aren't borrowing anything, Oracle has had this functionality
> since at least Oracle 8i (1999).

Whoa, calm down Francis.  I'm not suggesting they stole it or
something.  Just that they're using the same basic concepts.