Re: more concurrency information in the documentation - Mailing list pgsql-docs

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: more concurrency information in the documentation
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Msg-id 200503141943.j2EJhLP22438@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: more concurrency information in the documentation  ("Merlin Moncure" <merlin.moncure@rcsonline.com>)
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Merlin Moncure wrote:
>
> > than something we would have in our docs.  Perhaps we should like to
> > more outside documentation, but the URL you provided is so
> content-light
> > that I would not recommend it.
>
> hm, I'm not so sure I would agree with that sentiment.  Good information
> on how to deal with database concurrency issues seems to me to be pretty
> hard to find.  Let me ask you this, do you think the current
> documentation on database concurrency could be improved, and if so, how?
> Right now, it is fairly abstract and technical, and that may be a good
> thing.

Yea, I guess we could improve it, but looking at cost/benefit, I am not
sure how much sense it makes to add stuff that is not
PostgreSQL-specific.

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