Re: SSI, simplified

On 26.01.2011 17:00, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Simon Riggs<simon@2ndQuadrant.com>  wrote:
>
>> So in the Compatibility release notes for 9.1 we should say:
>>
>> "Applications that request SERIALIZABLE mode will now experience
>> different and fully correct behaviour. The new mode does not
>> currently work in Hot Standby mode, and an error will be returned
>> if this is requested. If the previous serializable behaviour is
>> required, users should request transaction isolation mode
>> REPEATABLE READ."
>
> Yeah, we definitely need to mention it in the release notes.  I feel
> there should also be notes in the regular docs, but Heikki would
> (quite understandably) prefer to minimize changes to the current
> patch until it is committed and deal with that such issues in
> smaller follow-up patches.

By all means, feel free to add a note to the docs about this. A note in 
the Hot Standby Caveats section would be good, in addition to somewhere 
in the chapter about isolation levels.

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