Re: new postgresql.conf - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gavin Sherry
Subject Re: new postgresql.conf
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0307281246240.6308-100000@linuxworld.com.au
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In response to new postgresql.conf  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> Just saw these:
> 
> #default_transaction_isolation = 'read committed'
> #default_transaction_read_only = false
> 
> Does the second option control the new read only transaction mode?  I
> thought 'read only' was just a new level of transaction isolation (ie. one
> of the 4 sql standard ones), so why does it need its own GUC var?

It is a transaction access mode, not an isolation level. ansi sql supports
two modes: read only and read write.

Gavin



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