Re: [HACKERS] DROP TABLE inside a transaction block - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] DROP TABLE inside a transaction block
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Msg-id 24574.952504877@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] DROP TABLE inside a transaction block  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] DROP TABLE inside a transaction block  ("Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@wallace.ece.rice.edu>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
>> Bruce seems to be willing to accept a window of failure for RENAME
>> TABLE in order to make database admin easier.  That is very possibly
>> the right tradeoff --- but it is *not* an open-and-shut decision.
>> We need to talk about it.

> How about creating a hard link during RENAME, and you can just remove
> the old link on commit or remove the new link on transaction rollback?

Still non-atomic as far as I can see...
        regards, tom lane


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