[google-appengine] Inconsistency in documented semantics of transactions.

2008-10-22 Thread Ian MacLarty
Hi, There seems to be an inconsistency in the documented semantics of transactions. The datastore documentation(http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/ datastore/transactions.html) says: " The example above demonstrates one use of transactions: updating an entity with a new property value relati

[google-appengine] Re: Inconsistency in documented semantics of transactions.

2008-10-22 Thread Ian MacLarty
On Oct 23, 11:54 am, "Dan Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Ian MacLarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > ... > > > However the article > >http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/transaction_isolation.html > > gi

[google-appengine] Re: Inconsistency in documented semantics of transactions.

2008-10-23 Thread Ian MacLarty
On Oct 24, 2:09 am, Ross Ridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian MacLarty wrote: > > In RDBMS speak a READ COMMITTED transaction may read changes committed > > by another concurrent transaction. If you were using a traditional > > RDBMS and you tried to increment a