Re: [Gnumed-devel] Comments on 0.2

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:30:09AM +0800, Syan Tan wrote:

> mvcc means no read will block, but a write may block or abort, or if
> configured, block and timeout. you need to start the transaction at the
> time of reading for mvcc to detect a concurrent write.

> In the past, once a transaction aborted, all writes in the transaction also
> abort,
> without heirarchical transaction control. The problem is that getting an emr 
> is
> a group fetch of many items that may get updated. What's needed is a a 
> subcommit,
> that says it is trying to commit a couple for rows of a mass read within in a
> transaction,
> ( a subtransaction). Karsten really has implemented the only solution if you
> can't
> have compound transactions.
Yep. The question, however, is whether we need explicit
"select for update", too. Probably not, it seems.

Karsten
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