Re: "stored procedures"

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: "stored procedures"
Date: 2011-04-22 00:17:50
Message-ID: 5665.1303431470@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> writes:
> On 4/21/11 3:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Maybe we should think about the SP controlling a second backend (or even
>> multiple backends?) that's executing the "transactional" operations.
>> dblink on steroids, as it were.

> This is how people are doing this now (using dblink I mean).

Right, and it works. But it's notationally painful, management of the
connection information poses security issues, etc etc. Perhaps those
sorts of things could be addressed, though.

regards, tom lane

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