On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 13:13 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <j...@commandprompt.com> writes: > > What is needed here is a layman's context of what isolation modes are > > good for what type of operation. Neither your explanation or Tom's is > > particularly useful except to say, "Crap, I might be screwed but I don't > > know if I am... how do I find out?" > > If we had a simple way to characterize that, we'd not be having this > discussion :-(
Certainly true. Sorry if I came off harsh my intent was to illustrate the more verbose yet less detailed information isn't going to help. Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 503.667.4564 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering Respect is earned, not gained through arbitrary and repetitive use or Mr. or Sir. -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers