Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Add lock matrix to documentation. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] pgsql: Add lock matrix to documentation.
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Msg-id 200702180129.l1I1Txf04831@momjian.us
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In response to Re: pgsql: Add lock matrix to documentation.  (Oleg Bartunov <oleg@sai.msu.su>)
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OK, I have updated "Conflicting lock modes" to show as conflicts, added
"Current/Requested" headings, add linked to the table from text.  Here
is the updated version:

    http://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/explicit-locking.html#TABLE-LOCK-COMPATIBILITY

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Oleg Bartunov wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > Am Donnerstag, 8. Februar 2007 16:32 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> >> Log Message:
> >> -----------
> >> Add lock matrix to documentation.
> >
> > This needs some revisions.  The table needs to be mentioned somewhere in the
> > text, so the reader knows when or why to refer to it.  Also, the cryptic
> > abbreviations need to be expanded or explained.  And then the concept of
> > lock "compatibility", as the table puts it, is not used anywhere else in the
> > documentation.  The table should be put in terms of conflicts instead.
> >
>
> Another version with expanded abbreviations is
> http://mira.sai.msu.su/~megera/pgsql/lockmatrix/c2.html, if remove
> UPDATE EXCLUSIVE.
>
> While compatibility matrix is a commonly accepted termin, I agree, that
> using conficts would be better in context of our docs.
>
>      Regards,
>          Oleg
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