Interview Question

Types of isolation levels?

Isolation levels trade concurrency behavior against protection from anomalies.

💡 Concept ✅ Quick Revision 🗃️ SQL

Answer

The standard isolation level names are Read Uncommitted, Read Committed, Repeatable Read, and Serializable. • Read Committed allows each statement to see a fresh committed snapshot in PostgreSQL. • Repeatable Read keeps a stable transaction snapshot in PostgreSQL. • Serializable provides the strongest guarantee but transactions may need retrying.

💡 SQL Example

BEGIN TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL REPEATABLE READ;

Result

BEGIN

⚡ Quick Revision

Isolation levels trade concurrency behavior against protection from anomalies.