Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > Sorry, that obviously didn't come across clearly (I think I've just been > talking to Kevin far too much).
> I'm not interested in making them serializable. I'd like to not have > tables randomly appear during a serializable transaction. Well, basically, you can't have that. Example: you have an existing table with primary key, and while you're in the middle of doing some long transaction, somebody else creates a table with a foreign-key reference to the one you're about to do a delete from. Being serializable does not excuse you from the obligation to check for FK violations in that "invisible" table. It might be acceptable to fail entirely, but not to act as though the table isn't there. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers