On Wed, 2022-05-25 at 14:27 +0200, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote: > ## Matthias Apitz (g...@unixarea.de): > > > We will solve the problem now with setting the session after connect to > > > > SET SESSION CHARACTERISTICS AS TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE > > READ; > > > > (with an appropriate ESQL/C call). Any comments? > > Maybe the real question is whether it is wise to use an implementation > artifact (ctid) to identify rows? > The textbook approach could be row locks (SELECT ... FOR SHARE/UPDATE and > variants) to prevent concurrent changes or optimistic locking (and a > primary key in any case) - but maybe you already investigated those options?
Right. REPEATABLE READ won't help you there. True, you will see a stable snapshot of the database inside a single transaction, but if a concurrent session has modified the row, you will get a serialization error. So that is not a solution. Yours, Laurenz Albe
