Re: Serializable Isolation without blocking

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com>
To: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Michael Cahill <mjc(at)it(dot)usyd(dot)edu(dot)au>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
Subject: Re: Serializable Isolation without blocking
Date: 2009-05-27 19:00:24
Message-ID: 1243450824.24860.352.camel@ebony.2ndQuadrant
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On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 13:34 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:

> For the record, it became clear that I did a bad job of communicating
> on this thread...

You did good work, IMHO. Not everything will reach consensus and that's
not your fault.

> first implement table level predicate
> locks, since that has to exist and would provide a complete, if
> somewhat clumsy, serializable solution; then move on to more
> fine-grained locks. It would probably be workable, and possibly
> optimal, to have just table and page locks; although it seems likely
> that index range locks and row locks would also be worth it,
> eventually.

Do we need table-level predicate locks at all? What would they give us?
Why not just go straight for fine-grained page-level locks?

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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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