Re: Idea for nested transactions / savepoints

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: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Idea for nested transactions / savepoints
Date: 2001-08-05 14:34:48
Message-ID: 8173.997022088@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> My idea is that we not put UNDO information into WAL but keep a List of
> rel ids / tuple ids in the memory of each backend and do the undo inside
> the backend.

The complaints about WAL size amount to "we don't have the disk space
to keep track of this, for long-running transactions". If it doesn't
fit on disk, how likely is it that it will fit in memory?

regards, tom lane

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