> I have not followed the entire thread, but if you are in a serializable OR
> repeatable-read transaction,
Serializable and repeatable read are the same thing, different wording.
> I would think that read-only statements will
> need to keep some kind of lock on the rows they read (or the table).
Yes, we were talking about the other isolation levels. Most,
but not all of my mails in this thread state this difference.
Andreas