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It's ironic that postgres the underlying storage model for postgres are immutable tables that marks records as "invisible" and asynchronously cleaned up.
by jerrygenser 3y ago
It's ironic that postgres the underlying storage model for postgres are immutable tables that marks records as "invisible" and asynchronously cleaned up.
- roenxi 3y agoYeah. Immutable design is better, what more is there to say? Unfortunately Postgres doesn't have an API to get at those well designed internals. It implements SQL.
- refset 3y agoOld but relevant discussion about pulling out the MVCC data from Postgres to mimic Datomic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4448189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4448189
- wredue 3y ago>what more is there to say? That it’s not better. Immutability is a tool, not a rule. Deploying immutability unanimously without regard for anything is a great way to create a terrible application.