Re: Hot Standby (v9d)

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Greg Stark <greg(dot)stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Hot Standby (v9d)
Date: 2009-01-23 21:57:03
Message-ID: 1232747823.3578.247.camel@dell.linuxdev.us.dell.com
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On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 20:13 +0000, Greg Stark wrote:
> > If you have a serializable transaction with subtransactions that
> > suffers
> > a serializability error it only cancels the current subtransaction.
>
> This is a complete tangent to your work, but I wonder if this is
> really right. I mean it's not as if we could have srrialized the
> transaction as a whole with respect to whatever other transaction we
> failed.

Isn't this back to the discussion about PostgreSQL serializability
versus true serializability?

I agree that's not true serializability.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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