Re: Reliable and fast money transaction design

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reliable and fast money transaction design
Date: 2007-08-29 16:50:19
Message-ID: 46D5A3CB.1080007@commandprompt.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> Argh!!! The RDBMS that I typically use defaults to SERIALIZABLE.
>
>> SERIALIZABLE is really slow :).
>
> Say what? If anything it's probably faster than READ COMMITTED, because
> it doesn't take as many snapshots. But the difference is likely down in
> the noise anyway.

Not in production it isn't.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> regards, tom lane
>
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