Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > On Wednesday 31 December 2008 02:33:26 Kevin Grittner wrote: >> I'm still working on section "Serializable Isolation versus True >> Serializability", but here are all the changes I can see which precede >> it. Has the review of the SQL specs convinced everyone that this much >> is appropriate? > > I don't agree with these changes. You make it sound like serializability is > an additional condition on the serializable isolation level on top of the > no-phantom-reads condition. I think that is not true, both mathematically > and from the wording of the SQL standard. It is an equivalent condition or a > consequence, depending on how you view it.
The standard explicitly says that the no-phantom-reads condition is a consequence of the serializability constraint. Did you miss that whole discussion this past week? -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com Ask me about EnterpriseDB's PostGIS support! -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
