Re: Should we SetQuerySnapshot() between actions of a rule?

Andrew Sullivan <andrew@libertyrms.info> writes:
> On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:55:45AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> interactive execution.  But which one do we want?  I could see an
>> argument that it'd be best for all the actions of a rule to see a
>> consistent snapshot of the state of other transactions; and not doing
>> the extra SetQuerySnapshot() calls would save some cycles.

> Can't you get the consistent snapshot by running SERIALIZABLE anyway?

Yeah, but that may do more than you want (like force a rollback on
update conflicts...)
        regards, tom lane