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LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 16, 2013
A look at the PyPy 2.0 release
PostgreSQL 9.3 beta: Federated databases and more
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 9, 2013
(Nearly) full tickless operation in 3.10
This was already discussed in the email thread ... overlapping writes are already serialised by the page lock. Discard doesn't have a page to lock, so you can't rely on this.
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