Re: Minor improvement in lock.sgml

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Etsuro Fujita
<fujita(dot)etsuro(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp> wrote:
> Here is a patch to a bit improve the reference page for the LOCK
> command. I think it'd be better for the isolation level to be in
> capitals and wrapped in the <literal> tags.

It's done that way elsewhere in the same page, so committed.

Overall, there is some ambiguity about this. Most places follow your
proposed style if <literal>READ COMMITTED</literal>,
<literal>REPEATABLE READ</literal>, and
<literal>SERIALIZABLE</literal>, but mvcc.sgml, which discusses
isolation levels extensively, just writes them as Read Committed,
Repeatable Read, and Serializable.

I'm not sure whether more consistency overall would be a good thing -
there are some things to recommend the current mix of styles - but
mixing styles within a page doesn't seem smart, so this much at least
seems uncontroversial.

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