What does "position" mean? And can you please explain the orange part?
We begin with what might look like a digression: a justification for our position, first articulated in Chapter 9, that all integrity constraints must be checked immediately (i.e., at end-of-statement), not deferred to end-of-transaction. We have at least four reasons for adopting this position, which we now proceed to explain.
com/en/definition/position : A person's point of view or attitude toward something. "articulated" means expressed/explained. The writer's position was expressed for the first time in Chapter 9.
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"position" is sense #4 at https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/position:
A person's point of view or attitude toward something.
"articulated" means expressed/explained. The writer's position was expressed for the first time in Chapter 9.