Re: out-of-order caution

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: out-of-order caution
Date: 2011-10-28 14:44:15
Message-ID: 4EAA796F020000250004280A@gw.wicourts.gov
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Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Kevin Grittner
> <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:
>> On the docs page for the SELECT statement, there is a caution
>> which starts with:
>>
>> | It is possible for a SELECT command using ORDER BY and FOR
>> | UPDATE/SHARE to return rows out of order. This is because ORDER
>> | BY is applied first.
>>
>> Is this risk limited to queries running in READ COMMITTED
>> transactions? If so, I think that should be mentioned in the
>> caution.
>
> I think it should say that if this occurs with SERIALIZED
> transactions it will result in a serialisation error.
>
> Just to say there is no effect in serializable mode wouldn't be
> helpful.

OK, doc patch attached.

-Kevin

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