[elephant-devel] Re: Updated version of last Postmodern patch bundle

[Leslie P. Polzer]

Dear Alex:

> why would we need anything other than best isolation level?
> people might prefer "read commited" because it yields no retries, but we
> need retries anyway (in case of deadlock or duplicate pk), so i see no
> reason.

It's a performance decision... enabling the safest isolation by default
is surely the right way to go, but the rest of the code should try hard
not to expose any avoidable errors if the user decides to switch to
another isolation level...

In any case, can you send a patch for the change of the default isolation
level, and probably a public convenience function/sc arg to change
it?

  Leslie