Re: Exposing the Xact commit order to the user

drkp(at)csail(dot)mit(dot)edu (Dan Ports) writes:
> I'm not clear on why the total rowcount is useful, but perhaps I'm
> missing something obvious.

It would make it easy to conclude:

"This next transaction did 8328194 updates. Maybe we should do
some kind of checkpoint (e.g. - commit transaction or such) before
working on it."

versus

"This transaction we're thinking of working on had 7 updates. No
big deal..."
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