Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: -- Start of PGP signed section. > > If the normal default_transaction_isolation = read committed and all > > transactions that require serializable are explicitly marked in the > > application then there is no way to turn off SSI without altering the > > application. That is not acceptable, since it causes changes in > > application behaviour and possibly also performance issues. > > Performance, perhaps. What application behavior changes? Less > serialization conflicts? > > > We should provide a mechanism to allow people to upgrade to 9.1+ > > without needing to change the meaning and/or performance of their > > apps. > > That ship has sailed.
Simon seems to value backward-compatibility more than the average hackers poster. The lack of complaints about 9.1 I think means that the hackers decision of _not_ providing a swich was the right one. -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
