On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:22:32PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: > mode. In fact I believe SERIALIZABLE mode is actually measurably faster in > benchmarks but haven't run one in READ COMMITTED mode recently (for that > reason). I think there's a reason why SERIALIZABLE could be slower, and that is that it's waiting on possibly-conflicting (but not actually conflicting) commits to happen in READ COMMITTED mode. No? Won't it have to check those things when it COMMITs? A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The whole tendency of modern prose is away from concreteness. --George Orwell ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster