Re: Is replacing transactions with CTE a good idea?

Sorry, my mistake. I misunderstood serializable. Are queries in a CTE equivalent to those in a repeatable read transaction?

> On Apr 1, 2021, at 11:10 PM, Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)postgres(dot)rocks> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 11:09, Glen Huang <heyhgl(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> No, but are they equivalent to serializable transactions?
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> No, they are not.
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> Dave Cramer
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>>>> On Apr 1, 2021, at 11:04 PM, Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)postgres(dot)rocks> wrote:
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>>>> On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 10:50, Glen Huang <heyhgl(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>>>> From application’s standpoint, it seems using CTE saves a lot work. You no longer need to parse values out only to pass them back in, and only one round-trip to the db server.
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>>>> If I’m not wrong, CTE is equivalent to serializable transactions? So I guess the downsize is that quarries can’t be run in parallel?
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>>> I do not think a CTE changes the isolation level.
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>>>> If I decide to replace all my transaction code with CTE, will I shoot myself in the foot down the road?
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>>> Dave Cramer
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