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 <anth...@berglas.org> > wrote: > >> 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. >> > > On the whole I believe that we are both mostly correct in our > observations. I would be happy to review a change to this section of the > documentation - whether done surgically or in a larger patch to make this > resource much more accessible to users. I don't plan to take on the > activity of putting together an initial patch for consideration. I will > observe that there haven't been many questions or comments pertaining to > this material hitting the mailing lists; though why that may be is > difficult to guess. Maybe it's covered better in books so people just > don't use this as a resource for the topic? In any case, the ability for > someone that knows this material well, but is a coder and not a teacher, to > write up something better and more accessible, and judging this is be a > better use of their time than some other activity, is fairly low. It does > seem, however, like an excellent project for someone who benefits from the > open source nature of the project and is looking for a way to both give > back to the community and learn a topic more fully at the same time. > > David J. > > > >
