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HN comment orderAuthor here with just a quick note that writing this was a pretty great learning experience. Postgres has always been the ultimate black box — it does some amazing things, but I generally have no idea how. I read a lot of Postgres code to get this finished, and I'm happy to say that for a codebase with so many authors, the quality of Postgres' is very high. Like any complex program it can be a little hard to trace…
Submitter, or a moderator, please edit the title to re-add the word "How". That's done automatically, but sometimes it's wrong. It's especially so here. Also, this remains as fantastic an article on PostgreSQL's MVCC nature as it was previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15027870
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 655
- Total comments
- 74
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-08-16 | How Postgres Makes Transactions AtomicFirst breakout · Best thread | craigkerstiens | 374 | 48 |
| 2019-09-17 | How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (2017)Latest 20+ point return | dmitryminkovsky | 278 | 26 |
| 2021-03-12 | How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic | plaur782 | 3 | 0 |