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Chapter 13. Concurrency Control

Table of Contents
13.1. Introduction
13.2. Transaction Isolation
13.2.1. Read Committed Isolation Level
13.2.2. Serializable Isolation Level
13.3. Explicit Locking
13.3.1. Table-Level Locks
13.3.2. Row-Level Locks
13.3.3. Deadlocks
13.3.4. Advisory Locks
13.4. Data Consistency Checks at the Application Level
13.5. Locking and Indexes

This chapter describes the behavior of the PostgreSQL database system when two or more sessions try to access the same data at the same time. The goals in that situation are to allow efficient access for all sessions while maintaining strict data integrity. Every developer of database applications should be familiar with the topics covered in this chapter.

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