Re: Autonomous Transaction is back - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Noah Misch
Subject Re: Autonomous Transaction is back
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Msg-id 20150911013950.GB3222614@tornado.leadboat.com
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In response to Re: Autonomous Transaction is back  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Autonomous Transaction is back  (Merlin Moncure <mmoncure@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 10:04:01AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> > What design principle(s) have you been using to decide how autonomous
> > transactions should behave?
> 
> I have to admit to a complete lack of principle.  I'm quite frightened
> of what this is going to need from the lock manager, and I'm trying to
> wriggle out of having to do things there that are going to be nastily
> hard.  My wriggling isn't going very well, though.

It's an exceptionally-challenging development project, agreed.  So much code
assumes the 1:1 relationship between backends and top-level transactions.



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