RE: Revisited: Transactions, insert unique.

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Hiroshi Inoue wrote:

> PostgreSQL's SERIALIZABLE isolation level would allow both inserts.
> READ COMMITED isolation level wouldn't allow A's inserts.
> 
> As I mentioned in another posting,PostgreSQL's SERIALIZABLE
> isolation level isn't completely serializable and it's same as Oracle.
> Probably Vadim refers to this incomplete serializability somewhere
> in documentation.
> It seems almost impossible to implement complete serializability
> under MVCC without using table level locking. I love MVCC much
> more than theoretically beautiful complete serializability.

Given that Postgres correctly recognizes concurrent updates and aborts one
of the transactions, how difficult would it be to do the same for inserts?

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