Re: Exposing the Xact commit order to the user

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Dan Ports <drkp(at)csail(dot)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Exposing the Xact commit order to the user
Date: 2010-05-24 21:53:50
Message-ID: 4BFAF56E.3090005@Yahoo.com
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On 5/24/2010 3:10 PM, Dan Ports wrote:
> I'm not clear on why the total rowcount is useful, but perhaps I'm
> missing something obvious.

It is a glimpse into the future. Several years of pain doing replication
work has taught me that knowing approximately who much work the next
chunk will be "before you select it all" is a really useful thing.

Jan

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