[Tex/LaTex] How to give double line spacing between paragraphs

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I am preparing my thesis with single line spaced, but it needs double line spacing between paragraphs. I am using \\ at the end of paragraph to achieve this. How to do this by using \parskip package for the whole document?

\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}
In a distributed database system, data is replicate of the most important advantages of replication is that it masks and tolerates failures in the network     gracefully and increases availability. \\

In case of multiple access a problem that must be solved while using replication is about maintaining the a generalization of the majority consensus method presented in\\

 This protocol can be viewed as specialized version of ring and tree    protocol.
 As compared to other protocols, wheel protocol can be used for arbitrary     number of nodes.

 \end{document}

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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article}
\setlength{\parskip}{2\baselineskip}
\begin{document}

\section{Introduction}
In a distributed database system, data is replicate of the most important advantages of replication is that it masks and tolerates failures in the network     gracefully and increases availability. 

In case of multiple access a problem that must be solved while using replication is about maintaining the a generalization of the majority consensus method presented in

 This protocol can be viewed as specialized version of ring and tree    protocol.
 As compared to other protocols, wheel protocol can be used for arbitrary     number of nodes.

\end{document}

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[Tex/LaTex] Double line spacing

The setspace package does it for you, but it turns doublespacing off within footnotes and floats like figure and table captions. That's usually desired.

But if you don't want to use setspace, perhaps because of the mentioned reason, you could use the command \linespread, for instance:

\linespread{1.5}

A package may be preferred over such a command though.

[Tex/LaTex] Two double spaces between paragraphs

As Thorsten alludes to above, the idea is to use the parskip package since it redefines list items and a couple other things to cope with the large increase in between each "paragraph". I wonder if it shouldn't redefine more, such as spacing around a figure, but I haven't investigated its limitations.

Unfortunately, the amount of space added between the paragraphs in parskip is fixed; here's how you'd change it:

\usepackage{setspace}
\doublespacing
\usepackage{parskip}
\parskip=2\baselineskip \advance\parskip by 0pt plus 2pt

The additional stretch will help to jiggle things around on the page in case you don't have an exact integer number of paragraph lines of text worth of content (e.g., there exists a table or figure on the page).

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