Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> wrote:
> * Florian Pflug:
>> On 16.12.09 16:40 , Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>> Nicolas Barbier<nicolas.barbier@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am not sure whether the serialization failures that it may
>>>> cause are dependent on the plan used.
>>>
>>> They are.
>>
>> But so are failures due to deadlocks even today, no?
>
> They are detected. In this context, "serialization failure" means
> that PostgreSQL generates a history which lacks one-copy
> serializability, without reporting any errors. (In the general
> case, the unique constraint violation which bugs me personally is
> a different beast and does result in an error.)
I don't understand what you're saying here. Could you rephrase or
expand on this?
Thanks,
-Kevin