- Original Message -
From: "Lance Ellinghaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] User Level Lock question
> I know it does not sound like
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 21:45, Lance Ellinghaus wrote:
> The application actually does not want nor need a consistent view of the
> data. It is expecting that records that are locked will not be viewed at
> all. The locks are normally held for VERY short periods of time. The fact
> that the applicat
e acts compared to a REAL RDBMS. If this
application was coded with a RDBMS in mind, things would be much easier.
Lance
- Original Message -
From: "Neil Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lance Ellinghaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent:
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 16:24, Neil Conway wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 14:54, Lance Ellinghaus wrote:
> > I know it does not sound like something that would need to be done, but here
> > is why I am looking at doing this...
> >
> > I am trying to replace a low level ISAM database with PostgreSQL
On Fri, 2002-03-15 at 14:54, Lance Ellinghaus wrote:
> I know it does not sound like something that would need to be done, but here
> is why I am looking at doing this...
>
> I am trying to replace a low level ISAM database with PostgreSQL. The low
> level ISAM db allows locking a record during a
an do it with the supplied routines.
>
> Does this make any more sense now or have I made it that much more
> confusing?
>
> Lance
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Tom Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Lance Ellinghaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
To: "Lance Ellinghaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] User Level Lock question
> "Lance Ellinghaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Is there an easy way to test the lock on a user le
"Lance Ellinghaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there an easy way to test the lock on a user level lock without actually
> issuing the lock?
Why would you ever want to do such a thing? If you "test" the lock but
don't actually acquire it, someone else might acquire the lock half a
microsecon
