AW: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] drop/rename table and transactions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Zeugswetter Andreas SEV
Subject AW: [HACKERS] Re: [GENERAL] drop/rename table and transactions
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Msg-id 219F68D65015D011A8E000006F8590C603FDC196@sdexcsrv1.f000.d0188.sd.spardat.at
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Vadim wrote:
> > The developers appear to want to make them 
> > work (i.e., have the
> > ability to rollback a DROP TABLE, ALTER TABLE ADD COLUMN, 
> > etc.). This, in my
> > opinion, goes far above and beyond the call of duty for a 
> >  RDBMS. Oracle issues
> > an implicit COMMIT whenever a DDL statement is found. 
>
> And I agreed with this.

And I strongly disagree. 
This sounds like pushing the flush button in the toilet,
and instead of the toilet flushing you get a shower.

How could anybody come to the idea that a DDL statement 
also does a commit work if inside a transaction ?

Now this sound so absurd, that I even doubt Oracle would do this.

Andreas


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