Re: Overhead cost of Serializable Snapshot Isolation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Greg Sabino Mullane
Subject Re: Overhead cost of Serializable Snapshot Isolation
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Msg-id 20111011203926.GQ3007@tinybird.home
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In response to Re: Overhead cost of Serializable Snapshot Isolation  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 04:32:45PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
...
> Simon seems to value backward-compatibility more than the average
> hackers poster.  The lack of complaints about 9.1 I think means that the
> hackers decision of _not_ providing a swich was the right one.

I wouldn't go that far: 9.1 is very new. Certainly the release notes do
not explain the change enough: part of the reason I wrote:

http://blog.endpoint.com/2011/09/postgresql-allows-for-different.html

Simon has a point, but I think that having applications switch from
serializable to repeatable read is a pain point people should
pay when going to 9.1, rather than adding some switch now.

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@endpoint.com
End Point Corporation
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