Re: Implementing SQL ASSERTION

On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 09:14:02PM +0000, Joe Wildish wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> > On 15 Jan 2018, at 16:35, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org> wrote:
> >
> > It sounds reasonable enough that I'd like to make a couple of Modest
> > Proposals™, to wit:
> >
> > - We follow the SQL standard and make SERIALIZABLE the default
> > transaction isolation level, and
> >
> > - We disallow writes at isolation levels other than SERIALIZABLE when
> > any ASSERTION could be in play.
>
> Certainly it would be easy to put a test into the assertion check
> function to require the isolation level be serialisable. I didn’t
> realise that that was also the default level as per the standard.
> That need not necessarily be changed, of course; it would be obvious
> to the user that it was a requirement as the creation of an
> assertion would fail without it, as would any subsequent attempts to
> modify the involved tables.

This patch no longer applies. Any chance of a rebase?

Best,
David.
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