[Zope3-dev] Atomic reads w ZEO and ZODB

[David Huttleston Jr]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:19:43PM -0400, Gary Poster wrote:
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> On Aug 31, 2005, at 12:07 PM, David Huttleston Jr wrote:
> ...
> >But, I'm fuzzy on how the zodb prevents inconsistent reads.
> ...
> 
> Hi David.  A quick answer is that the ZODB implements optimistic  
> multi-version concurrency control, similar to the default PostgreSQL  
> behavior.  This link describes the proposal, which is pretty close to  
> the way it turned out, as far as I know.
> 
> http://www.zope.org/Wikis/ZODB/MultiVersionConcurrencyControl

Thanks for your time, Gary.  This is what I needed to see.

Dave