RE: Row locks, SKIP LOCKED, and transactions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Steven Winfield
Subject RE: Row locks, SKIP LOCKED, and transactions
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Msg-id E9FA92C2921F31408041863B74EE4C2001E7664F89@CCPMAILDAG03.cantab.local
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In response to Re: Row locks, SKIP LOCKED, and transactions  (Adrian Klaver <adrian.klaver@aklaver.com>)
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>> * I observe this even if I crank up the transaction isolation level to repeatable read and serializable.
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>> I'm wondering if row locks are not obeying the same transactional semantics as row data,


>Gotta believe it is this:
>
>https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/transaction-iso.html#XACT-READ-COMMITTED
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>"UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT FOR UPDATE, and SELECT FOR SHARE commands ..."
>
>If I read correctly, transactions can see the effects of other
>transactions that commit during their lifetime.

Thanks. I had a look at those docs when I first encountered the issue (if it can be called that), which prompted me to
tryrepeatable read and serializable isolation levels, but to no avail. I couldn't find anything specifically mentioning
thevisibility of row locks at different isolation levels. 




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