Re: Named transaction - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Named transaction
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Msg-id 20090617174021.GJ6750@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Named transaction  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Responses Re: Named transaction  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
Re: Named transaction  (Greg Stark <stark@enterprisedb.com>)
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> What in heck is a named transaction, and why should we care?
>
> Isn't this just another name for a subtransaction or inner transaction  
> that can be separately committed?

AFAIK that's an "autonomous transaction", at least to some other RDBMSs.

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