Re: [BUGS] Status of issue 4593

"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:

>>>> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote: 
>> we'd break 100,000 existing Java applications if we changed the
> error. 
>  
> In what way would an application want to treat deadlocks and update
> conflicts differently?  Both result from conflicts with concurrent
> transactions and can be retried automatically.  It seems like an
> implementation detail with little chance of impact on applications to
> me.  Can anyone provide a contrary example or argument?

Well generally deadlocks are treated differently in that they are treated by
rewriting the application to not cause deadlocks.

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