[GENERAL] Inconsistence in transaction isolation docs

2007-10-16 Thread Nico Sabbi
/From: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/transaction-iso.html Read Committed/ is the default isolation level in PostgreSQL. When a transaction runs on this isolation level, a SELECT query sees only data committed before the query began; it never sees either uncommitted data or

Re: [GENERAL] Inconsistence in transaction isolation docs

2007-10-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Am Dienstag, 16. Oktober 2007 schrieb Nico Sabbi: to me the above sentence sounds inconsistent: it's asserting that both 1) and 2) apply: 1) it never sees ... changes committed during query execution by concurrent transactions What this is supposed to mean is that you don't see changes while

Re: [GENERAL] Inconsistence in transaction isolation docs

2007-10-16 Thread Trevor Talbot
On 10/16/07, Nico Sabbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /From: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/transaction-iso.html Read Committed/ is the default isolation level in PostgreSQL. When a transaction runs on this isolation level, a SELECT query sees only data committed before the

Re: [GENERAL] Inconsistence in transaction isolation docs

2007-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/16/07 07:08, Trevor Talbot wrote: On 10/16/07, Nico Sabbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /From: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/transaction-iso.html Read Committed/ is the default isolation level in PostgreSQL. When a

Re: [GENERAL] Inconsistence in transaction isolation docs

2007-10-16 Thread Albe Laurenz
Nico Sabbi wrote: /From: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/transaction-iso.html Read Committed/ [...] to me the above sentence sounds inconsistent: it's asserting that both 1) and 2) apply: 1) it never sees ... changes committed during query execution by concurrent

Re: [GENERAL] Inconsistence in transaction isolation docs

2007-10-16 Thread Nico Sabbi
Albe Laurenz ha scritto: Nico Sabbi wrote: /From: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/transaction-iso.html Read Committed/ [...] to me the above sentence sounds inconsistent: it's asserting that both 1) and 2) apply: 1) it never sees ... changes committed during query

Re: [GENERAL] Inconsistence in transaction isolation docs

2007-10-16 Thread Trevor Talbot
On 10/16/07, Nico Sabbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, I know how read committed behaves, but I don't see why should anyone expect an update of the resultset of the currently executing query after a commit by a different transaction. A currently executing UPDATE will see changes made to