Re: psql's commit df9f599b is not documented

2021-08-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 05:24:14PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:03 PM Bruce Momjian wrote: > > > I think we put it in the PG 11 release notes so people who used Postgres > previously would know this item is improved, but for new folks, it will > just wor

Re: psql's commit df9f599b is not documented

2021-08-02 Thread David G. Johnston
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 5:03 PM Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I think we put it in the PG 11 release notes so people who used Postgres > previously would know this item is improved, but for new folks, it will > just work if they try it, but we don't want to encourage them to try it. > > And why do we c

Re: psql's commit df9f599b is not documented

2021-08-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 04:27:01PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 4:10 PM Bruce Momjian wrote: > > On Mon, Aug  2, 2021 at 03:31:15PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 2:58 PM PG Doc comments form < > nore...@postgresql.org> > > w

Re: Common case not at all clear

2021-08-02 Thread David G. Johnston
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 4:30 PM Anthony Berglas wrote: > You are talking about optimistic locking, commonly used for web > applications where there is no transaction kept open during user think time. > Yes, I said as much a couple of emails ago. > And more importantly it is very important that

Re: psql's commit df9f599b is not documented

2021-08-02 Thread David G. Johnston
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 4:10 PM Bruce Momjian wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 03:31:15PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 2:58 PM PG Doc comments form < > nore...@postgresql.org> > > wrote: > > > > quit and exit commands have been added to psql starting from psql 11

Re: psql's commit df9f599b is not documented

2021-08-02 Thread Bruce Momjian
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 03:31:15PM -0700, David G. Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 2:58 PM PG Doc comments form > wrote: > > quit and exit commands have been added to psql starting from psql 11 > through > this commit df9f599b > https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgr

Re: psql's commit df9f599b is not documented

2021-08-02 Thread David G. Johnston
On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 2:58 PM PG Doc comments form wrote: > quit and exit commands have been added to psql starting from psql 11 > through > this commit df9f599b > > https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit;h=df9f599bc6f14307252ac75ea1dc997310da5ba6 > but it is not documented

psql's commit df9f599b is not documented

2021-08-02 Thread PG Doc comments form
The following documentation comment has been logged on the website: Page: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/app-psql.html Description: Hi quit and exit commands have been added to psql starting from psql 11 through this commit df9f599b https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=commit

Re: Common case not at all clear

2021-08-02 Thread David G. Johnston
On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 11:35 PM Anthony Berglas wrote: > I have attached a proposed doc update that makes the problem clearer. I > think that this is important because if people do not understand it they > will write buggy code and then blame Postgresql for losing updates, which > is totally una

Re: Common case not at all clear

2021-08-02 Thread Anthony Berglas
Hello David, I have attached a proposed doc update that makes the problem clearer. I think that this is important because if people do not understand it they will write buggy code and then blame Postgresql for losing updates, which is totally unacceptable. So please do action this. I have teste