Re: Syntax of transaction identifiers - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Syntax of transaction identifiers
Date
Msg-id 21759.1128348201@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Syntax of transaction identifiers  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Why are the transaction identifiers used in the 2PC commands lexical 
> strings rather than identifiers?  Shouldn't database objects be 
> identifiers and strings be purely data objects?  Or is there some 
> standard or precedent on that?

I proposed the same awhile back, but it was shot down --- there is
a standard out there somewhere, and it requires strings of 150 or so
characters for GIDs, so identifiers don't work.  See the archives.
        regards, tom lane


pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Bruce Momjian
Date:
Subject: Re: Updated documentation for new sequence binding
Next
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: Build Farm: thrush