Re: Common case not at all clear

2021-09-19 Thread Anthony Berglas
Hello David, I note that nothing has happened. In future I would suggest that you simply tell people that document updates are not really welcome. Otherwise you waste people's time. The locking issue is actually quite serious. Cheers, Anthony On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 10:01 AM Anthony Be

Re: Common case not at all clear

2021-08-03 Thread Anthony Berglas
Hello David, Thanks for that, I had thought that you were a committer. Sounds like it might all be a bit too difficult. Anthony On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 9:39 AM David G. Johnston wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 4:30 PM Anthony Berglas > wrote: > >> You are talking about opt

Re: Common case not at all clear

2021-08-03 Thread Anthony Berglas
tick? (i.e. does it run the clock forward). I have another reason to know that. Using clocks is iffy for synchronization. On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 1:26 AM David G. Johnston wrote: > On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 11:35 PM Anthony Berglas > wrote: > >> I have attached a proposed doc update

Re: Common case not at all clear

2021-08-02 Thread Anthony Berglas
but changed should produce an error for Read Committed. The goal is not to satisfy academic rules but produce something that works safely in practice. But I am sure there has been much discussion about that elsewhere.) On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 6:03 PM Anthony Berglas wrote: > OK, I

Re: Common case not at all clear

2021-07-30 Thread Anthony Berglas
OK, I'll put something for you to review. Most programmers simply ignore locking and wonder why it sometimes goes wrong. On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 2:22 PM David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 8:44 PM Anthony Berglas > wrote: > >&

Re: Common case not at all clear

2021-07-30 Thread Anthony Berglas
My point is that while I can follow the academic style discussion, most of my colleagues could not. They just need to have a clear idea of how to handle the common case, which is to use a database using some programming language. Early on, for Read Committed, it should discuss and ideally provide