Re: JDBC Transaction Isolation level 4 - Serializable problem

From: Kris Jurka <books(at)ejurka(dot)com>
To: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
Cc: Cameron Braid <cameron(at)datacodex(dot)net>, <pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: JDBC Transaction Isolation level 4 - Serializable problem
Date: 2003-11-20 05:37:47
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.33.0311200036490.1490-100000@leary.csoft.net
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Oliver Jowett wrote:

> There was some discussion about whether the driver should use the
> next-higher level rather than failing in this case but I think the
> conclusion was it's better to only set the levels that are directly
> supported by the backend (READ_COMMITTED and SERIALIZABLE), and that the
> application can upgrade the level it requests if needed based on querying
> the driver's DatabaseMetaData.
>

Recently the backend was changed to do the automatic transaction level
upgrade, so perhaps we should too.

Kris Jurka

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