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by theptip 2024 days ago
Depends on your use-case; if it's meaningless, why is it implemented in all the leading SQL DBs? It's the default in Postgres...

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/transaction-iso.html

If you're arguing that in practice this isn't enough isolation, then sure, that's what I said in my post; most applications need more than the default isolation levels. I feel like you're making an absolutist point (just like the original article) where my point was that the domain is actually more nuanced, and absolutes just obscure the technical complexity.