Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> On Wednesday 31 December 2008 02:33:26 Kevin Grittner wrote:
>> I'm still working on section "Serializable Isolation versus True
>> Serializability", but here are all the changes I can see which precede
>> it. Has the review of the SQL specs convinced everyone that this much
>> is appropriate?
>
> I don't agree with these changes. You make it sound like serializability is
> an additional condition on the serializable isolation level on top of the
> no-phantom-reads condition. I think that is not true, both mathematically
> and from the wording of the SQL standard. It is an equivalent condition or a
> consequence, depending on how you view it.
The standard explicitly says that the no-phantom-reads condition is a
consequence of the serializability constraint. Did you miss that whole
discussion this past week?
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