Re: PREPARE and transactions

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Merlin Moncure <merlin(dot)moncure(at)rcsonline(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Jeroen T(dot) Vermeulen" <jtv(at)xs4all(dot)nl>
Subject: Re: PREPARE and transactions
Date: 2004-06-26 17:28:23
Message-ID: 20040626172823.GB3396@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 09:12:33AM -0400, Merlin Moncure wrote:

> > BEGIN;
> > ... do something ... ;
> > SUBBEGIN;
> > EXECUTE ...;
> > -- if it fails:
> > -- SUBABORT;
> > -- PREPARE ...;
> > -- SUBBEGIN;
> > -- EXECUTE ...;
> > -- can continue as if nothing happened
> > SUBCOMMIT;
> > COMMIT;
>
> This is not an option: this requires that every EXECUTE be wrapped with
> a subtransaction. This is a performance killer because it (at minimum)
> triples my statement turnaround latency.

Ah, good point.

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