Re: Wikipedia's Isolation page

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Wikipedia's Isolation page
Date: 2011-09-23 15:23:34
Message-ID: 20110923152334.GD25267@fetter.org
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:57:50PM -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> I'm not very happy about the skewed discussion on the Wikipedia
> "Isolation (database systems)" page. The whole thing is very much
> skewed toward pre-MVCC techniques, and this section is outright
> inaccurate as of PostgreSQL version 9.1:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_%28database_systems%29#SERIALIZABLE

Please fix :)

> I'm having a lot of trouble figuring out what to do about this.
> Should I just do a minor tweak to that section with a reference or
> two to PostgreSQL doc or wiki pages, or does it merit something more
> fundamental?

As in a pointer to a new wikipedia page on SSI?

Cheers,
David.
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