Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Merlin Moncure
Subject Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?
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Msg-id 6EE64EF3AB31D5448D0007DD34EEB34101ADE4@Herge.rcsinc.local
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Correction:
> For the record:
> PostgreSQL currently has row level locking: locks are acquired by
writing
> to the data and released by committing/rolling back a transaction.
What
> makes this different from traditional 'library book model' locking
systems
> is that writers do not block writers, only other readers.  Basically,
the

last sentence is backwards: writers block writers, not readers

Merlin

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