Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 01:40:36 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun Spurs Innovation in Supercomputing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906040139120.413-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <19990604054634.K77195@bitbox.follo.net>
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On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> Replacing the lock calls with calls to an API for a distributed lock
> manager. This allowed the use of PostgreSQL in high-availability
> clusters, with two machines sharing the same physical "disk"
> (actually, RAID array).
Not quick sure how this applies (if it even does), but v6.5 of PostgreSQL
has had major changes done to it on its 'concurrency' code, to improve
locking...but I'm suspecting that its not 'client' locking you are talking
about here?
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
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