Without looking at the complete passage in Vald's article, I will say that the single phrase you pulled out of that context is not accurate IMO
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 12:01 PM Arnold Gálovics <galovicsarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm a bit confused with the mentioned lock mode. > > *The doc says the following:* > *"The entity is locked pessimistically and its version is incremented > automatically even if the entity has not changed."* > > I'm checking this with an H2 DB and the current behavior is the following: > - the version attribute is incremented in advance, right after fetching > (I'm using EntityManager#find here, but with lock, it should be the same) > - the original fetching query contains the SELECT ... FOR UPDATE clause > > Knowing this, it seems for me that this lock mode involves a DB lock, > however the doc doesn't say anything about this, especially whether it's a > shared or exclusive lock. > > I've checked Vlad's article about this. > > https://vladmihalcea.com/2015/02/16/hibernate-locking-patterns-how-does-pessimistic_force_increment-lock-mode-work/ > > It says the following: "*The PESSIMISTIC_FORCE_INCREMENT naming might lead > you into thinking that you are using a pessimistic locking strategy, while > in reality this Lock Mode is just an optimistic locking variation."* > > So now I'm unsure what this really is. > > Could you please briefly describe it to me if I missed something? > > Thanks in advance! > > Best Regards, > Arnold > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev