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  PostgreSQL's Multi-Version Concurrency Control
Subject:   MySQL has a type of MVCC
Date:   2001-05-31 11:33:59
From:   pylet
The latest versions of MySQL also come with a table handler (Innobase) that support a form of non-locking selects through MVCC. It doesn't (currently) support hot backups, however.