From: | "Ansley, Michael" <Michael(dot)Ansley(at)intec(dot)co(dot)za> |
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To: | "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org'" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Beta 6.5 |
Date: | 1999-01-07 08:13:34 |
Message-ID: | 1BF7C7482189D211B03F00805F8527F70156A8@S-NATH-EXCH2 |
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>>> In February, we start beta on 6.5, which will have multi-version
>>> concurrency control, thanks to Vadim. For those of you who did not
like
>>> our table-level locking, you will be really surprised. Not only do
we
>>> have row-level locking, we have something even better. In row-level
>>> locking, a reader can not read a row that is locked by a writer. In
the
>>> 6.5 locking system, READERS ARE NEVER BLOCKED, and writers block
only if
>>> they try to modify a _row_ that another writer has modified and not
>>> committed.
>>>
>>> This is a major feature, better than many commercial databases.
There
>>> is also no running out of locks like commercial systems, because the
>>> transaction ids take care of that. A true NUMERIC type with
>>> user-specified precision is also planned for 6.5, thanks to Jan.
Bruce, this sounds great.
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