Re: L - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Josh Berkus
Subject Re: L
Date
Msg-id 200708140731.30653.josh@agliodbs.com
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In response to Re: L  (Lukas Kahwe Smith <smith@pooteeweet.org>)
Responses Re: transactional DDL
Re: L
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All,

> Actually very few RDBMS support transactional DDL, though right this
> second I do not remember what they do in case you issue DDL inside a
> transaction. I would assume/hope that they give you an error and not do
> an implicit commit.

Speaking of which, we should make a big point of our transactional DDL as a
feature.  It's something that even some of the big proprietary DBs don't
have.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL @ Sun
San Francisco

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