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Re: [DOCS] Upcoming Attractions, web site

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu (Thomas G. Lockhart)
Cc: hal@enteract.com, docs@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-01-07T17:54:11Z
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> Looks nice. Might rephrase:
> 
>   Those of you who did not like
>   our table-level locking will be pleasantly surprised.
> 
> to be something like
> 
>   Those of you wanting alternatives to
>   our table-level locking will be pleasantly surprised.

I don't like the new wording.  It sounds like we are adding an optional
functionality, while we are replacing table-level locking because MVCC
is much better.  We can say:

    Those of you need better locking than our current
    table-level locking will be pleasantly surprised.


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