RE: Row locks, SKIP LOCKED, and transactions

Steven Winfield <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:42:49 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.postgresql.general
Message-ID <E9FA92C2921F31408041863B74EE4C2001E7664F89@CCPMAILDAG03.cantab.local>
>> * I observe this even if I crank up the transaction isolation level to repeatable read and serializable.
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>> I'm wondering if row locks are not obeying the same transactional semantics as row data, 


>Gotta believe it is this:
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>https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/transaction-iso.html#XACT-READ-COMMITTED
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>"UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT FOR UPDATE, and SELECT FOR SHARE commands ..."
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>If I read correctly, transactions can see the effects of other 
>transactions that commit during their lifetime.

Thanks. I had a look at those docs when I first encountered the issue (if it can be called that), which prompted me to try repeatable read and serializable isolation levels, but to no avail. I couldn't find anything specifically mentioning the visibility of row locks at different isolation levels.