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Re: remove upsert example from docs

Marko Tiikkaja <marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.fi>

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From: Marko Tiikkaja <marko.tiikkaja@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-02-17T18:47:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On 2011-02-17 8:37 PM +0200, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
>> The problem with the "safe" way is that it's not safe if called in a
>> transaction with isolation level set to SERIALIZABLE.
>
> Good analysis.  Documentation patch attached and applied.

The "safe way" I was referring to above was the LOCK TABLE method, not 
the one described in the documentation, so the remark about READ 
COMMITTED in the patch should be removed.  The first part looks fine though.


Regards,
Marko Tiikkaja