Re: Partial commit within the trasaction

From: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
To: Bohdan Linda <bohdan(dot)linda(at)seznam(dot)cz>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Partial commit within the trasaction
Date: 2005-09-08 12:53:47
Message-ID: 20050908125347.GB68650@winnie.fuhr.org
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 01:23:56PM +0200, Bohdan Linda wrote:
> plpgsq code does time intensive data manipulation + database vacuuming.
> This data manipulation is splitted logically into several steps. After
> each step I would like to give a message to the status table, what the
> procedure is performing.
>
> Currently I pass the information to the table via insert, but this is also
> the limitation. I would like to allow another user see the progress of the
> current pgplsql procedure, but no insert is commited, till procedure ends.
>
> How this can be solved?

One way would be to use contrib/dblink to open another connection
to the database so the status messages could be inserted in a
separate transaction.

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Michael Fuhr

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