Re: Statement-level rollback

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>, "Tsunakawa, Takayuki" <tsunakawa(dot)takay(at)jp(dot)fujitsu(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Statement-level rollback
Date: 2018-12-07 21:02:53
Message-ID: 22540.1544216573@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> Well, look at this from this point of view: EnterpriseDB implemented
> this because of customer demand (presumably). Fujitsu also implemented
> this for customers. The pgjdbc driver implemented this for its users.
> Now 2ndQuadrant also implemented this, and not out of the goodness of
> our hearts. Is there any room to say that there is no customer demand
> for this feature?

Yeah, but there is also lots of demand for stability in basic
transactional semantics. I refer you again to the AUTOCOMMIT business;
there were a lot of claims that that wouldn't break too much, and they
were all wrong.

regards, tom lane

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