On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 14:54, Lance Ellinghaus wrote:
> I know it does not sound like something that would need to be done, but here
> is why I am looking at doing this...
>
> I am trying to replace a low level ISAM database with PostgreSQL. The low
> level ISAM db allows locking a record during a read to allow Exclusive
> access to the record for that process. If someone tries to do a READ
> operation on that record, it is skipped.
If the locked record is skipped, how can the application be sure it is
getting a consistent view of the data?
Cheers,
Neil
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