Re: Weird behavior with "sensitive" cursors. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Weird behavior with "sensitive" cursors.
Date
Msg-id 20091001012611.GO8280@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Weird behavior with "sensitive" cursors.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Weird behavior with "sensitive" cursors.
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Tom Lane escribió:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > Tom Lane escribi�:
> >> I think we need to ensure that when a cursor is created, it obtains a
> >> private copy of the current snapshot ... but I'm not sure where that
> >> ought to happen.  Thoughts?
>
> > Maybe you are right, but I don't think that's the only bug here.
>
> Well, the first problem is that 8.4 is failing to duplicate the
> historical behavior.

Oh!  That's easy.

> After that we can think about whether we'd like to
> change the historical behavior.  I'm not entirely convinced about that
> yet (and it certainly wouldn't be something I'd want to back-patch).

I don't care enough about that to spend much time on it ...

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Alvaro Herrera                                http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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