Re: Major features for 9.1

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Kevin Grittner
<Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>wrote:

> > Andrew Lardinois wrote:
>
> > I could go on finding random articles with some content about
> > serialization all night.
>
> > [all sorts of articles about data serialization and Server Side
> > Include technology]
>
> But we're talking about *SERIALIZABLE transactions*, and you have yet
> to cite an article which has anything to do with that. Please don't
> post more of this until you read the wiki page I cited and understand
> the issue. If you find an article related to *that* topic I'm all
> ears. Random articles about unrelated topics which happen to contain
> similar words are not helpful.

It is rather unfortunate that serialize means both things. It is also
unfortunate that SSI also stands for Server Side Include. This confusion
is going to be common. It isn't the end of the world but it is certainly
going to have to be addressed.

I think it is saying something that one of the most exciting features in 9.1
would be lost on a huge portion of the DB using public. I've interviewed
DBAs who don't know what a transaction isolation level is. Most of the
developers I've interviewed don't know.

Nik