-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tom Lane wrote: > "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Tom Lane wrote: >>> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>> SERIALIZABLE is really slow :). >>> Say what? If anything it's probably faster than READ COMMITTED, because >>> it doesn't take as many snapshots. But the difference is likely down in >>> the noise anyway. > >> Not in production it isn't. > > Well, I can believe that specific applications might be slower overall > due to having to retry transactions that get serialization failures, > or perhaps because they take more locks to prevent such failures. > But it's not slower as far as the database engine is concerned. Well I can only speak to live production loads. I have never profiled the difference from that low of a level. I can definitely say that in a standard web app, under velocity, serializable is a huge performance killer. Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ UNIQUE NOT NULL Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG1bHqATb/zqfZUUQRAvDMAJ9nEu+9cumsD+P6E7pZmdkEry6V7QCeN1Cz nRjVC8BoFZb4b+u6ncP8UFo= =N4gK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly