Re: Reliable and fast money transaction design

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Reliable and fast money transaction design
Date: 2007-08-29 16:38:11
Message-ID: 5652.1188405491@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Joshua D. Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> Argh!!! The RDBMS that I typically use defaults to SERIALIZABLE.

> SERIALIZABLE is really slow :).

Say what? If anything it's probably faster than READ COMMITTED, because
it doesn't take as many snapshots. But the difference is likely down in
the noise anyway.

regards, tom lane

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