Re: timeout implementation issues

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Jessica Perry Hekman <jphekman(at)dynamicdiagrams(dot)com>, Barry Lind <barry(at)xythos(dot)com>, Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: timeout implementation issues
Date: 2002-04-03 20:03:23
Message-ID: 12069.1017864203@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Does anyone know the ramifications of allowing SET to work in an aborted
> transaction?

This is not an option.

The case that will definitely Not Work is SET variables whose setting
or checking requires database accesses. The new search_path variable
certainly works that way; not sure if there are any other cases at the
moment, but I'd not like to say that there can never be any such
variables.

regards, tom lane

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