Re: Multiple Xids in PGPROC?

From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>
Cc: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Multiple Xids in PGPROC?
Date: 2004-05-05 22:07:33
Message-ID: 1083794852.3028.6.camel@stromboli
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On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 05:30, Rod Taylor wrote:

> Yup.. And some of us intend on wrapping every single statement in a
> subtransaction so we can rollback on an error without aborting the main
> transaction.
>

That is exactly what is needed to achieve full Oracle & DB2
compatibility.

I suggest that this should be a session settable parameter, to allow
session transaction semantics to mimic particular DBMS.

I want the behaviour but not the effort...

Best Regards, Simon Riggs

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