Thread: Re: [HACKERS] Broken RR?

I'm moving this to GENERAL.  Whomsoever replies there please delete the
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Rasmus Resen Amossen wrote:

> Does Postgres garantee repeatable-read (RR) during transactions? And does it
> implement ARIES/KVL?
>
> If so, why is the following possible?
>
> T1: begin;
> T1: select * from table;
>    (notice the row with id = X)
> T2: begin;
> T2: delete from table where id = X;
> T1: select * from table;
>    (notice the row with id = X suddenly is gone)

What version of postgresql are you running?

Did you NOT commit the T2 transaction before the last select for T1?

If you commit the deletion, and do NOT have transaction mode set to
serializable, then yes, this is what you'll see.

You can either use select for update or serializable transactions.

Hi All,
I have a problem. I have 3 tables.
1. stock changes
2. product groups
3. a link table between the 2 above

I need the name of the product group the product belongs to, which product
is the subject of the stock change. (I hope it's understandable)

So I tried this query:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------
DB=# select t_stockchanges.productid, (select name from t_productgroups
where id=(select productgroupid from t_prod_in_pgr where
productid=t_stockchanges.productid)) as pgroup from t_stockchanges;
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------

As I suppose this query should have produced 2 columns, the productid and
the related product group name: pgroup.

But instead it generated an error. It says, that the subquery (I suppose the
most inner) gives back more then 1 tuple. How can I query the only 1 record,
that matches the actual t-stockchanges records productid field. Isn't it
calculated for each stockchanges record?

Thank you in advance.

Best Regards,
-- Csaba




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On Thursday 19 Jun 2003 5:36 pm, Együd Csaba wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a problem. I have 3 tables.
> 1. stock changes
> 2. product groups
> 3. a link table between the 2 above
>
> I need the name of the product group the product belongs to, which product
> is the subject of the stock change. (I hope it's understandable)
>
> So I tried this query:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>- ------------------
> DB=# select t_stockchanges.productid, (select name from t_productgroups
> where id=(select productgroupid from t_prod_in_pgr where
> productid=t_stockchanges.productid)) as pgroup from t_stockchanges;

Try something like:

SELECT chg.productid, grp.name as pgroup
FROM t_stockchanges chg, t_prod_in_pgr pp, t_productgroups grp
WHERE chg.productid=pp.productid AND pp.productgroupid=grp.id;

I might have got some of your fields wrong, but what I'm trying to do is join
across the linked fields.

change.product_id => linktbl.product_id, linktbl.group_id => groups.group_id

No need for a subselect here.
--
  Richard Huxton