On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:26:10PM +0200, Robert Klemme wrote:
> You make them sound like witchcraft. But they are clearly defined -
> even standardized. Granted, different RDBMS might implement them in
> different ways - here's PG's view of TX isolation:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/interactive/transaction-iso.html
Even better: PostgreSQL 9.1 (Released yesterday! Fresher than milk...)
ships an improved algorithm for serializable transaction isolation
level:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/interactive/transaction-iso.html
More info:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Serializable
Cheers,
Dr. Gianni Ciolli - 2ndQuadrant Italia
PostgreSQL Training, Services and Support
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