Re: Comparison of PGSQL and DB2

From: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Postgresql Advocacy <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Comparison of PGSQL and DB2
Date: 2004-03-11 22:14:36
Message-ID: 1079043275.86715.119.camel@jester
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On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 17:01, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Rod Taylor wrote:
>
> > > are we just
> > > pretending to set the level in 7.5 but still using the next level higher?
> >
> > I believe Peter found verbiage in the spec that said to do exactly that.
> > Something about the isolation level being the minimum requirement, and
> > better than that was acceptable.
>
> Oh, good. So we're gonna support:

It's not a gonna, what exists in -TIP is what you get.

Peter did this very shortly after 7.5 development started.

START TRANSACTION
[ ISOLATION LEVEL { READ UNCOMMITTED | READ COMMITTED | REPEATABLE
READ | SERIALIZABLE } ]
[ READ WRITE | READ ONLY ]

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