On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote: > "Michael Paesold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Now setting autocommit=off the set transaction isolation level command does > > not show any effect: > > > billing=# set autocommit to off; > > SET > > billing=# set transaction isolation level serializable; > > SET > > SET does not start a transaction block, so this will not work. You must > use an explicit BEGIN before setting TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL. > > You might instead set default_transaction_isolation to get the behavior > I think you are looking for.
The overall behavior appears to be against spec, but I figure this was discussed at the time the set transation was added. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
