Re: Proposal: "Causal reads" mode for load balancing reads without stale data

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Amit Langote <Langote_Amit_f8(at)lab(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, Thom Brown <thom(at)linux(dot)com>, Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)bluetreble(dot)com>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Proposal: "Causal reads" mode for load balancing reads without stale data
Date: 2016-02-29 11:38:22
Message-ID: CAB7nPqTOgBmetwO5Gt=KFrwYpw7=ri39AO0oXS_p9PJrfye8Sw@mail.gmail.com
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On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Thomas Munro
<thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
> "All changes made by the transaction become visible to others ..." --
> which others? But I backed out, that succinct account of COMMIT is 20
> years old, and in any case visibility is tied to committing, not
> specifically to the COMMIT command. But perhaps this patch really
> should include something there that refers back to the causal reads
> section.

Luckily enough, read uncommitted behaves like read-committed in PG,
making this true :)
--
Michael

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