"Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> If that's what you want then you run the transaction in serializable
>> mode.
> If you run this at SERIALIZABLE transaction isolation level, would
> PostgreSQL currently roll something back before returning rows in an
> order different than that specified by the ORDER BY clause?
Yes, it would roll back as soon as it found that any of the selected
rows had been concurrently modified. The behavior where you get back
the updated version of the row is specific to READ COMMITTED mode.
regards, tom lane
