Re: Major features for 9.1 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 14:57 +0000, Roy Hann wrote:
> Nikolas Everett wrote:
>
> > I think it is saying something that one of the most exciting features in 9.1
> > would be lost on a huge portion of the DB using public.  I've interviewed
> > DBAs who don't know what a transaction isolation level is.  Most of the
> > developers I've interviewed don't know.
>
> A DBA doesn't need to know what an isolation level is.  Programmers need
> to know.  (But they don't.)

One of the use cases of SSI is to enforce constraints, which are
certainly of interest to DBAs.

Regards,
    Jeff Davis