Tom Lane wrote:
http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/sql-set-transaction.html
http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/transaction-iso.html
It's a bit amusing that this person is dissing us for not having
REPEATABLE READ, when what he actually seems to want is
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Tony Caduto wrote:
Serializable is stricter and somehwat unusable in a multi-user, loaded
database, because only one transaction can run at any time. Let's say you
would have one long running serializable transaction encapsulating a
reporting query, this will cause other
Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tom,
This is what the firebird guy said:
Serializable is stricter and somehwat unusable in a multi-user, loaded
database, because only one transaction can run at any time.
He's already demonstrated that he has no clue what he's talking about,
so I think
Hi Tony,
As the referenced documentation states, the PostgreSQL SERIALIZABLE
transaction isolation level complies with the ANSI/ISO requirements, but
not with a mathematically pure interpretation of the term. (The only
quibble I have with that documentation is that you have to be averting
your
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 12:00:12 -0600,
Kevin Grittner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Tony,
As the referenced documentation states, the PostgreSQL SERIALIZABLE
transaction isolation level complies with the ANSI/ISO requirements, but
not with a mathematically pure interpretation of the term.
We found PostgreSQL a mature product, but in two things Firebird was
simply better than PostgreSQL: Two-Phase commit (ok, that is gone with
PG 8.1), but the second is a SNAPSHOT / REPEATABLE READ transaction
isolation. I can't live without that when it comes having a stable view
of data during
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 19:35 -0600, Tony Caduto wrote:
We found PostgreSQL a mature product, but in two things Firebird was
simply better than PostgreSQL: Two-Phase commit (ok, that is gone with
PG 8.1), but the second is a SNAPSHOT / REPEATABLE READ transaction
isolation. I can't live
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 19:35:30 -0600,
Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We found PostgreSQL a mature product, but in two things Firebird was
simply better than PostgreSQL: Two-Phase commit (ok, that is gone with
PG 8.1), but the second is a SNAPSHOT / REPEATABLE READ transaction
Bruno Wolff III [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 19:35:30 -0600,
Tony Caduto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We found PostgreSQL a mature product, but in two things Firebird was
simply better than PostgreSQL: Two-Phase commit (ok, that is gone with
PG 8.1), but the second is a
