Re: INSERT...ON DUPLICATE KEY LOCK FOR UPDATE - visibility semantics

From: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)heroku(dot)com>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: INSERT...ON DUPLICATE KEY LOCK FOR UPDATE - visibility semantics
Date: 2013-09-28 00:39:09
Message-ID: CAM3SWZTm7hsxLZNDt9K2x9F-bArNUBV0qg0KvyL3QVbTwUVWYA@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> Various messages are discussing semantics around visibility. I by now
> have a hard time keeping track. So let's keep the discussion of the
> desired semantics to this thread.

Yes, it's pretty complicated.

I meant to comment on this here, but ended up saying some stuff to
Robert about this in the main thread, so I should probably direct you
to that. You were probably right to start a new thread, because I
think we can usefully discuss this topic in parallel, but that's just
what ended up happening.

--
Peter Geoghegan

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