| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: nested xacts and phantom Xids |
| Date: | 2004-06-24 03:28:27 |
| Message-ID: | 8298.1088047707@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> writes:
> It'd be good to have savepoints right now. I'm not sure it'd be good to
> expose the nested transactions implementation if we are going to offer
> savepoints later, because it means we will have to keep nested
> transactions forever.
Nested transactions are *good*. We should not hide them.
I don't object to offering spec-compatible savepoints, but the plain
fact of the matter is that that's a dumbed-down API. We should not
feel constrained to offer only that.
regards, tom lane
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