On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:19:24PM -0500, Decibel! wrote: > But no matter how this is done, I think we need to handle the race > conditions, and handle them by default. If people *really* know what > they're doing, they can disable the row locking (perhaps one way to > do this would be to grab an explicit lock on the table and have merge > check for that...).
I disagree. The spec doesn't require it and MERGE is useful without it. For a first cut I would say implement as the spec says, race conditions and all. Later we can think on whether it's worth handling them directly. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Please line up in a tree and maintain the heap invariant while > boarding. Thank you for flying nlogn airlines.
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