expertIsolation & Anomalies
How would you decide isolation level on a per-operation, not per-application, basis?
Default the application to Read Committed, and explicitly elevate to Repeatable Read/Serializable only for specific operations (financial reports, multi-step invariant checks) where the extra correctness is worth the concurrency cost — isolation level is a per-transaction decision, not a single glob
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