[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Number of Edits

[Dave Stubbs]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
>>> Brett Henderson wrote:
>>>
>>>> Would this mean you'd update the same way multiple times within a
>>>> single revision?  I'm nervous about what this means for
>>>> replication.  How does osmosis know when the way is complete and
>>>> ready to be replicated?  Sorry, probably off topic here but just
>>>> keep it in mind.
>>>
>>> Not quite sure what you mean. 0.6 transactions will just be (AIUI)
>>> "groups" of edits, nothing more.
>>
>> Just a clarification for me - should we keep referring to these as
>> "changesets" and perhaps start the mantra of "a changeset is not
>> transactional"? I think otherwise the database guys amongst us will
>> get confused...
>
> On reading the wiki, maybe "a changeset is not atomic" is a better
> description? Is there a difference in db-esque parlance between
> "atomic" and "transactional"?


See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID