Re: tab completion for prepared transactions?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: tab completion for prepared transactions?
Date: 2010-01-24 19:32:16
Message-ID: 1264361536.3644.2.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On sön, 2010-01-24 at 19:43 +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> "PREPARE TRANSACTION is not intended for use in applications or in
> interactive sessions. It's purpose is to allow an external transaction
> manager to perform atomic global transactions across multiple
> databases
> or other transactional resources. Unless you're writing a transaction
> manager, you probably shouldn't be using PREPARE TRANSACTION"

I have never had a chance to use one of these "transaction managers".
I'm probably using it in a non-orthodox way then. What is the
difference between a transaction manager and an application that opens
multiple connections and does PREPARE + COMMIT PREPARED across them?

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