
Anatomy of a Shared Lock: How Foreign Keys Stale Your Postgres Concurrency
A deep dive into the hidden lock propagation mechanics that cause referential integrity constraints to serialize updates in high-volume databases.
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A deep dive into the hidden lock propagation mechanics that cause referential integrity constraints to serialize updates in high-volume databases.

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