Re: attempted to lock invisible tuple - PG 8.4.1

Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> create trigger onetest_t before update on onetest for each row
>         execute procedure upd();
> 
> insert into onetest select a, repeat('xyzxz', 100), 'new' from generate_series(1, 50) a;
> 
> BEGIN;
> SET transaction isolation level SERIALIZABLE;
> UPDATE onetest SET description = 'no no', id = 1 where id = 1;
> commit;

What I don't understand is why this works when the update uses the same
target page.

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