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Transactions, Isolation, and MVCC

Transactions are a promise. Learn the ACID guarantees, the exact anomalies each SQL isolation level prevents or allows, why two-phase locking blocks and MVCC does not, and how Postgres uses row versions plus a transaction ID visibility check to give you snapshot isolation without holding a single read lock.

8 steps·~12 min

Transactions, Isolation, and MVCC

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