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latching
- Jan 3, 2026 Concurrent Descent and Page Latching in a Shared B-Tree How readers descend without blocking writers, why a split needs the parent as well as the child, and how the Lehman-Yao protocol avoids deadlock. databases
- Jun 2, 2025 Latch Coupling and Deadlock Avoidance in the Buffer Pool Why latches are not locks, how lock coupling keeps a B-tree descent deadlock-free, what a partitioned buffer pool hash table buys, and where contention concentrates. databases