Re: out-of-order caution - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kevin Grittner
Subject Re: out-of-order caution
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Msg-id 4EAA796F020000250004280A@gw.wicourts.gov
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In response to Re: out-of-order caution  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
Responses Re: out-of-order caution
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Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Kevin Grittner
> <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> wrote:
>> On the docs page for the SELECT statement, there is a caution
>> which starts with:
>>
>> | It is possible for a SELECT command using ORDER BY and FOR
>> | UPDATE/SHARE to return rows out of order. This is because ORDER
>> | BY is applied first.
>>
>> Is this risk limited to queries running in READ COMMITTED
>> transactions?  If so, I think that should be mentioned in the
>> caution.
>
> I think it should say that if this occurs with SERIALIZED
> transactions it will result in a serialisation error.
>
> Just to say there is no effect in serializable mode wouldn't be
> helpful.

OK, doc patch attached.

-Kevin


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