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transaction isolation level
! The four transaction isolation levels and the corresponding
! behaviors are described in .
! Standard SQL Transaction Isolation Levels
!
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transaction isolation level
! The SQL standard and PostgreSQL-implemented transaction isolation levels
! are described in .
! Transaction Isolation Levels
!
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Phantom Read
! Read uncommitted
Possible
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Phantom Read
+
+ Serialization Anomalies
+
! Read uncommitted (SQL Standard)
!
!
! Possible
!
!
! Possible
!
!
! Possible
!
!
! Possible
!
!
!
!
!
! Read uncommitted (PostgreSQL)
!
!
! Not possible
Possible
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Possible
! Repeatable read
Not possible
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Possible
+
+ Possible
+
! Repeatable read (SQL Standard)
!
!
! Not possible
!
!
! Not possible
!
!
! Possible
!
!
! Possible
!
!
!
!
!
! Repeatable read (PostgreSQL)
!
!
! Not possible
Not possible
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Not possible
! In PostgreSQL, you can request any of the
! four standard transaction isolation levels. But internally, there are
! only three distinct isolation levels, which correspond to the levels Read
! Committed, Repeatable Read, and Serializable. When you select the level Read
! Uncommitted you really get Read Committed, and phantom reads are not possible
! in the PostgreSQL implementation of Repeatable
! Read, so the actual
! isolation level might be stricter than what you select. This is
! permitted by the SQL standard: the four isolation levels only
! define which phenomena must not happen, they do not define which
! phenomena must happen. The reason that PostgreSQL>
! only provides three isolation levels is that this is the only
! sensible way to map the standard isolation levels to the multiversion
! concurrency control architecture. The behavior of the available
! isolation levels is detailed in the following subsections.
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Not possible
+
+ Not possible
+
! In PostgreSQL, you can request any of
! the four standard transaction isolation levels, but internally only
! three distinct isolation levels are implemented, i.e. PostgreSQL's
! Read Uncommitted mode behaves like Read Committed. This is because
! it is the only sensible way to map the standard isolation levels to
! PostgreSQL's multiversion concurrency control architecture.
!
!
!
! The table also shows that PostgreSQL's Repeatable Read implementation
! does not allow phantom reads. Stricter behavior is permitted by the
! SQL standard: the four isolation levels only define which phenomena
! must not happen, not which phenomena must> happen.
! The behavior of the available isolation levels is detailed in the
! following subsections.