On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 14:48:01 -0400,
Brad Nicholson <bnichols@ca.afilias.info> wrote:
> I'm seeing something fairly unintuitive about serializable transactions.
>
> "When a transaction is on the serializable level, a SELECT query sees
> only data committed before the transaction began; it never sees either
> uncommitted data or changes committed during transaction execution by
> concurrent transactions."
This has come up on the lists before. Take a look at:
http://secure.linuxports.com/pgsql-admin/2006-01/msg00256.php