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What levels of transaction isolation have you set manually in practice?

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In practice with databases in Go, it is often necessary to manually set transaction isolation levels to control concurrency and prevent issues with simultaneous access. The main isolation levels I have used:

  • Read Uncommitted — the lowest level, allows reading uncommitted changes, which can lead to "dirty" reads.
  • Read Committed — prevents reading uncommitted data but allows non-repeatable reads.
  • Repeatable Read — guarantees that data read in a transaction will not change until it completes.
  • Serializable — the strictest level, provides full transaction isolation as if transactions were executed sequentially.

In Go, using the database/sql package, the isolation level can be set via the BeginTx method with the sql.TxOptions{Isolation: sql.LevelSerializable} parameter, for example:

ctx := context.Background()
tx, err := db.BeginTx(ctx, &sql.TxOptions{Isolation: sql.LevelRepeatableRead})
if err != nil {
    // handle error
}
// work with the transaction