On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:33:06PM +0200, Andreas Jung wrote:
> hi,
>
> we are running Postgres 7.3.3 successfully on our portal sites
There's a nasty bug in 7.3.3 which is fixed in 7.3.4.
> N processes need to write update/insert within the same time and within
> the same transaction data in one table. More detailed: every process
> opens its own connection, starts a transaction, updates *different* rows
> and then commits.
These two descriptions are not of the same thing. Different
processes cannot share the same transaction, unless they're using the
same connection.
> According to our postgres adminstrator, Postgres seems
> to behave differently on Linux and Solaris. Any ideas on that?
Differently how? Start up time for a connection is sure worse:
fork() on Solaris is slow as my dog with his foot in a bandage.
A
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