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+ Some DDL commands, currently only <a class="link" href="sql-truncate.html" title="TRUNCATE"><code class="command">TRUNCATE</code></a> and the
+ table-rewriting forms of <a class="link" href="sql-altertable.html" title="ALTER TABLE"><code class="command">ALTER TABLE</code></a>, are not
+ MVCC-safe. This means that after the truncation or rewrite commits, the
+ table will appear empty to concurrent transactions, if they are using a
+ snapshot taken before the DDL command committed. This will only be an
+ issue for a transaction that did not access the table in question
+ before the DDL command started — any transaction that has done so
+ would hold at least an <code class="literal">ACCESS SHARE</code> table lock,
+ which would block the DDL command until that transaction completes.
+ So these commands will not cause any apparent inconsistency in the
+ table contents for successive queries on the target table, but they
+ could cause visible inconsistency between the contents of the target
+ table and other tables in the database.
+ </p><p>
+ Support for the Serializable transaction isolation level has not yet
+ been added to hot standby replication targets (described in
+ <a class="xref" href="hot-standby.html" title="27.4. Hot Standby">Section 27.4</a>). The strictest isolation level currently
+ supported in hot standby mode is Repeatable Read. While performing all
+ permanent database writes within Serializable transactions on the
+ primary will ensure that all standbys will eventually reach a consistent
+ state, a Repeatable Read transaction run on the standby can sometimes
+ see a transient state that is inconsistent with any serial execution
+ of the transactions on the primary.
+ </p><p>
+ Internal access to the system catalogs is not done using the isolation
+ level of the current transaction. This means that newly created database
+ objects such as tables are visible to concurrent Repeatable Read and
+ Serializable transactions, even though the rows they contain are not. In
+ contrast, queries that explicitly examine the system catalogs don't see
+ rows representing concurrently created database objects, in the higher
+ isolation levels.
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