Folks,
This patch clarifies the 'predicate locking' section in the docs.
Thanks to Harrison Fisk of MySQL AB for helping.
Cheers,
D
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result in problems. (Certainly the example above is rather contrived
and unlikely to represent real software.) Accordingly,
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> does not implement predicate
! locking, and so far as we are aware no other production DBMS does either.
</para>
<para>
--- 471,480 ----
result in problems. (Certainly the example above is rather contrived
and unlikely to represent real software.) Accordingly,
<productname>PostgreSQL</productname> does not implement predicate
! locking. No system based on next-key locking implements it
! either because next-key locking only helps when all your
! predicates are point or range searches against an available
! B-tree index. DB2, however, does implement predicate locking.
</para>
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