dirty reads

Started by Josh Closeover 21 years ago2 messagesgeneral
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#1Josh Close
narshe@gmail.com

Is there a way to do "dirty" reads on postgres?

If there is an insert of a million records or so, is there a way to
select from those records before it's committed?

-Josh

#2Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Josh Close (#1)
Re: dirty reads

Josh Close wrote:

Is there a way to do "dirty" reads on postgres?

If there is an insert of a million records or so, is there a way to
select from those records before it's committed?

By your transaction, sure, by another, no.

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