I have added this to the TODO list, with a question mark. Hope this is
OK with everyone.
o Abort SET changes made in aborted transactions (?)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@fourpalms.org> writes:
> > I do have a concern about how to implement some of the SET commands if
> > we *do* respect transactional semantics. For example, SET TIME ZONE
> > saves the current value of an environment variable (if available), and
> > would need *at least* a "before transaction" and "after transaction
> > started" pair of values.
>
> I intended for guc.c to manage this bookkeeping, thus freeing individual
> modules from worrying about it. That would require us to transpose the
> last few special-cased SET variables into generic GUC variables, but
> I consider that a Good Thing anyway.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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