Re: PostgreSQL not ACID compliant?

From: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL not ACID compliant?
Date: 2003-09-19 23:10:07
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0309191708370.16609-100000@css120.ihs.com
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On Fri, 19 Sep 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just read a rather disturbing post....
>
> PostgreSQL does not support read uncommited and repeatable read
> isolation levels? If that is so... then PostgreSQL is NOT ACID compliant?
>
> What is the real deal on this?

Postgresql supports Serializable transactions, which are 100% ACID
compliant.

I'm pretty sure read committed mode is also ACID compliant since anything
that would cause a failure of ACID compliance would result in a rollback,
but I'm not sure.

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