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Is the Read Uncommitted isolation level supported in PostgreSQL?

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In PostgreSQL, the Read Uncommitted transaction isolation level is not supported directly. The lowest isolation level implemented in PostgreSQL is Read Committed.

Read Committed guarantees that a transaction only sees data that has been committed by other transactions at the time of the query. This prevents reading "dirty" (uncommitted) data.

If a more strict isolation is needed, Repeatable Read or Serializable can be used.

Therefore, PostgreSQL does not have a separate Read Uncommitted level, as the database architecture and MVCC (multi-version concurrency control) make this isolation level redundant.

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