Re: Does Informix do Versioning Read-Only Transactions?

>>>>> "gs" == Graeme Sargent <graeme@pyramid.com> writes: D. Erway (derway@ndc.com) wrote: : Does anyone know if any versions of Informix, (maybe the latest - 7), do : Versioning Consistency Control like Oracle 7 does? gs> No, Informix 7.1 does not do Versioning. But then, neither does ORACLE7. From the Oracle 7 Server Concepts Manual, page 10-7, about Multi-version Consistency Model, and Transaction-Level Read Consistency: "To provide repeatable reads within a read-only transaction, ORACLE observes the start of the transaction. For the duration of the transaction, only data committed before the start of the transaction is available." gs> : Or any other versioning transaction control like maybe Interbase? gs> Now *that's* versioning! Anyway, thanks for the info. Too bad Informix hasn't caught on yet... How sure are you? Is your Informix information more reliable than your Oracle information?? :-) Don