The light now glows above my head. OTOH, i thought that with a MVCC transaction
model, the scenario you describe should not be possible.
Chris Hutchinson wrote:
> Dennis,
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>>I'm really curious how you got these two transactions to occur
>>simultaneously, i.e. how does one DO the test that you DID?
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> Open two terminal sessions, run a copy of psql in both. In one run the 'begin; insert...', in the other run 'insert'.
Thesecond is blocked until a commit (or rollback) is entered in the first.
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> Regards,
> Chris
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