Commit 5e84d58e authored by Thomas G. Lockhart's avatar Thomas G. Lockhart

Minor updates for release.

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<chapter id="datatype">
<title>Data Types</title>
<title id="datatype-title">Data Types</title>
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Documentation Guide
Thomas Lockhart
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Revision 1.16 1999/06/14 07:36:11 thomas
Minor updates for release.
Revision 1.15 1999/05/27 15:49:07 thomas
Markup fixes.
Update for v6.5 release.
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James Clark's
<ulink url="http://www.jclark.com/jade/"> <productname>jade</productname></ulink>
and Norm Walsh's
<ulink url="http://www.berkshire.net/~norm/docbook/dsssl">Modular DocBook Stylesheets</ulink>.
<ulink url="http://www.nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/">Modular DocBook Stylesheets</ulink>.
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Here is a brief summary of some of the more noticable changes:
Here is a brief summary of the more notable changes:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
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Because readers in 6.5 don't lock data, regardless of transaction
isolation level, data read by one transaction can be overwritten by
another. In the other words, if a row is returned by
another. In other words, if a row is returned by
<command>SELECT</command> it doesn't mean that this row really exists
at the time it is returned (i.e. sometime after the statement or
transaction began) nor that the row is protected from deletion or
update by concurrent transactions before the current transaction does
transaction began) nor that the row is protected from being deleted or
updated by concurrent transactions before the current transaction does
a commit or rollback.
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<para>
To ensure the actual existance of a row and protect it against
To ensure the actual existence of a row and protect it against
concurrent updates one must use <command>SELECT FOR UPDATE</command> or
an appropriate <command>LOCK TABLE</command> statement. This should be
taken into account when porting applications from previous releases of
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Keep above in mind if you are using contrib/refint.* triggers for
Keep the above in mind if you are using
<filename>contrib/refint.*</filename> triggers for
referential integrity. Additional technics are required now. One way is
to use <command>LOCK parent_table IN SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE MODE</command>
command if a transaction is going to update/delete a primary key and
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<programlisting>
Time System
02:00 Dual Pentium Pro 180, 224MB, UW-SCSI, Linux 2.0.36, gcc 2.7.2.3 -O2 -m486
04:38 Sparc Ultra 1 143MHz, 64MB, Solaris 2.6
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