Re: Clarification on a Time travel feature - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jonah H. Harris
Subject Re: Clarification on a Time travel feature
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Msg-id 36e682920710310423o6bfa5728iddca1befda4b7a4d@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Clarification on a Time travel feature  ("Gokulakannan Somasundaram" <gokul007@gmail.com>)
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On 10/31/07, Gokulakannan Somasundaram <gokul007@gmail.com> wrote:
> a) Is there a proposal in place for going back in time within a transaction?

Yes, it's called a savepoint :)

> b) I know time travel doesn't allow to change the details of the past. But
> is it possible to provide an alternative to rollback
> by means of changing the data with older command id.
>
> But i just want to clarify once more that i am restricting the scope of time
> travel within a transaction..

What exactly are you trying to do that can't be accomplished with savepoints?

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