Re: [Bodington-developers] Locking Issues (Java, Explicit DB, Optimistic DB)

[Matthew B. <mat...@ou...>]

Peter Crowther wrote:
>> From: Matthew Buckett
>> Yep your right. As a side note PostgreSQL implements 
>> TRANSACTION_REPEATABLE_READ as SERIALIZABLE.
> 
> Bah, these half-complete databases ;-).
> 
> (As an amusing piece of history, up until SQL Server 7.0, MSSQL
> implemented SERIALIZABLE as REPEATABLE_READ - far more dangerous and
> very poorly documented)

But a nice performance improvement ;-)

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