Re: PREPARE and transactions

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 08:20:17AM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> At 2004-06-24 13:13:42 -0400, tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us wrote:
> >
> > > This is why I proposed originally to keep the non-transactional
> > > behavior for Parse messages, but transactional for SQL PREPARE.
> > > The latter can be said to be inside the transaction and should
> > > behave like so. I think this lowers the surprise factor.
> >
> > It seems like we are closing in on an agreement that that is what
> > should happen.
>
> As a client maintainer, I have no particular problem with the status quo
> (apparently like Greg and Cyril), but I can appreciate the point made in
> Jeroen's initial post in this thread, and I would not object to changing
> PREPARE to be transactional while leaving Parse messages alone. Nor do I
> have a problem with "PREPARE OR REPLACE".

Do you use libpq on your client, or the be-fe protocol directly?

AFAIK there is no way to use Parse with libpq calls ... I think this
limits it's applicability as a lot of people uses libpq
(unsurprisingly).

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