Re: Compatibility GUC for serializable

On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 11:29 -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 1/10/11 10:47 AM, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> > If they're not using SERIALIZABLE, this patch will have no impact on
> > them at all.  If they are using SELECT FOR UPDATE *with*
> > SERIALIZABLE, everything will function exactly as it is except that
> > there may be some serialization failures which they weren't getting
> > before, either from the inevitable (but hopefully minimal) false
> > positives inherent in the technique or because they missed covering
> > something.
> 
> Right, that's what I'm worried about.

If we must have a GUC, perhaps we could publish a sunset one release in
the future.

Regards,Jeff Davis