Serializable Transactions

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  • Author: Brandur Leach
  • Source: https://brandur.org/http-transactions
  • Serializable transactions can catch all sorts of race conditions that normal transactions might not. They allow concurrent transactions to run as if they are running in serial.
  • When transactions interfere, one will fail, so you need to have some retry logic or other handling for this.
  • SQL: Start transaction isolation level serializable

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