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| -rw-r--r-- | src/man/set.l | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/man/set.l b/src/man/set.l index 9a4cf7f9fb9..15c64baca7d 100644 --- a/src/man/set.l +++ b/src/man/set.l @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ .\" This is -*-nroff-*- .\" XXX standard disclaimer belongs here.... -.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/set.l,v 1.20 1999/06/03 20:44:28 momjian Exp $ +.\" $Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/src/man/Attic/set.l,v 1.21 1999/06/04 03:44:42 momjian Exp $ .TH SET SQL 05/14/97 PostgreSQL PostgreSQL .SH NAME set - set run-time parameters for session @@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ sets the current transaction's isolation level to .IR SERIALIZABLE or .IR READ COMMITTED . +.IR SERIALIZABLE +means that the current transaction will place a lock on every row read, +so later reads in that transaction see the rows unmodified by +other transactions. +.IR READ COMMITTED +means that the current transaction reads only committed rows. +.IR READ COMMITTED +is the default. .PP .IR CLIENT_ENCODING|NAMES sets the character set encoding of the client. Only available if multi-byte |