On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: >> What's hard about that? INSERTs are the hard case, because the rows >> you care about don't exist yet. SELECT, UPDATE, and DELETE are easy >> by comparison; you can lock the actual rows at issue. Unless I'm >> confused? > > UPDATE isn't really any easier than INSERT: the update might cause > the row to satisfy someone else's search condition that it didn't > previously satisfy.
Good point. ...Robert -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
