Re: autonomous transactions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: autonomous transactions
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Msg-id 20080122190416.GI10897@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: autonomous transactions  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: autonomous transactions  ("Pavel Stehule" <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>)
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:02 -0600, Roberts, Jon wrote:
> > Maybe someone could enhance this concept to include it with the core
> > database to provide autonomous transactions.
> 
> I agree that autonomous transactions would be useful, but doing them via
> dblink is a kludge. If we're going to include anything in the core
> database, it should be done properly (i.e. as an extension to the
> existing transaction system).

Agreed.  I think Pavel Stehule was doing some experiments with them, I
don't know if he got anywhere.

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