Support for specifying transaction isolation level

If your database supports setting the isolation level for a transaction,
you can set it like so:

  Post.transaction(isolation: :serializable) do
    # ...
  end

Valid isolation levels are:

* `:read_uncommitted`
* `:read_committed`
* `:repeatable_read`
* `:serializable`

You should consult the documentation for your database to understand the
semantics of these different levels:

* http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/transaction-iso.html
* https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/set-transaction.html

An `ActiveRecord::TransactionIsolationError` will be raised if:

* The adapter does not support setting the isolation level
* You are joining an existing open transaction
* You are creating a nested (savepoint) transaction

The mysql, mysql2 and postgresql adapters support setting the
transaction isolation level. However, support is disabled for mysql
versions below 5, because they are affected by a bug
(http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=39170) which means the isolation level
gets persisted outside the transaction.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb
index 3a8fbcf93f..0cb219767b 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb
@@ -167,6 +167,11 @@ module ActiveRecord
         false
       end
 
+      # Does this adapter support setting the isolation level for a transaction?
+      def supports_transaction_isolation?
+        false
+      end
+
       # QUOTING ==================================================
 
       # Returns a bind substitution value given a +column+ and list of current