Re: [HACKERS] WIP Patch: Pgbench Serialization and deadlock errors

>> >> P.S. Does this use case (do not retry transaction with serialization or
>> >> deadlock failure) is most interesting or failed transactions should be
>> >> retried (and how much times if there seems to be no hope of success...)?
>> >
>> > I can't quite parse that sentence, could you restate?
>> 
>> The way I read it was that the most interesting solution would retry
>> a transaction from the beginning on a serialization failure or
>> deadlock failure.
> 
> As far as I understand her proposal, it is exactly the opposite -- if a
> transaction fails, it is discarded.  And this P.S. note is asking
> whether this is a good idea, or would we prefer that failing
> transactions are retried.

Yes, I have meant this, thank you!

> I think it's pretty obvious that transactions that failed with
> some serializability problem should be retried.

Thank you voted :)

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