default_transaction_deferrable

Type: bool
Default: off
Context: user
Restart: false

When running at the serializable isolation level, a deferrable read-only SQL transaction may be delayed before it is allowed to proceed. However, once it begins executing it does not incur any of the overhead required to ensure serializability; so serialization code will have no reason to force it to abort because of concurrent updates, making this option suitable for long-running read-only transactions.

This parameter controls the default deferrable status of each new transaction. It currently has no effect on read-write transactions or those operating at isolation levels lower than serializable. The default is off.

Consult sql-set-transaction for more information.

Recommendations

If you use serializable transactions by default, it may be also useful to set this in order to decrease the overhead of long-running transactions.

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