From: | Florian Weimer <fweimer(at)bfk(dot)de> |
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To: | "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> |
Cc: | "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL Advocacy" <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Major features for 9.1 |
Date: | 2011-04-03 15:24:01 |
Message-ID: | 82wrjb73zi.fsf@mid.bfk.de |
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* Kevin Grittner:
>> * SSI: Serializable Snapshot Isolation
>> True serializability without locking. Eliminate a lot of SELECT
>> FOR UPDATE code.
>> This might also be a PostgreSQL first.
>
> Obviously *I* think it's big. Besides the on-list posts, I've
> gotten quite a few off-list emails and comments at conferences which
> make me think there are a lot of others interested. Notice the
> aggressive testing it got once it hit alpha. I'm pretty sure I'd
> have heard about it or run across it in web searches if anybody else
> had beat us to this. (I would say that "without blocking" would be
> more technically accurate than "without locking".)
>
> +1
Does SSI address the UPSERT race? If yes, it's going to help a lot of
people indeed.
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