Re: WITH HOLD and pooled connections

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WITH HOLD and pooled connections
Date: 2003-08-08 20:36:03
Message-ID: 29904.1060374963@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> Yeah. I'm leaning towards the idea that a protocol addition is what to
>> do.

> I am confused why a protocol change would be desired.

I was thinking that you might want it at a lower level than having to
issue a SQL command to get at the data. A lot of what we changed in
the 7.4 protocol revision involved eliminating the need to use SQL
commands to get at information that a client library needs.

But see my later note questioning just how useful these features would
really be.

regards, tom lane

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