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by gurjeet·4y ago·view on hn ↗
Note: the log (aka write-ahead-log) in Postgres, and its ilk, enables the D(urability) of ACID. MVCC in Postgres is implemented by storing the visibility info of each row in the row-header (search: xmin, xmax).

Some commercial RDBMSs do use their logs for MVCC, though.