Re: Transactional DDL, but not Serializable - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Transactional DDL, but not Serializable
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Msg-id 4865.1301068304@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Transactional DDL, but not Serializable  (Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>)
Responses Re: Transactional DDL, but not Serializable
Re: Transactional DDL, but not Serializable
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Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> writes:
>   I don't believe fixing this would be terribly difficult and, I
>   believe, would be similar to what we've done else where (eg: with
>   indexes)- basically, add a column to pg_class with the 'createdxmin'
>   and then compare that against our transaction whenever we're doing
>   table lookups.

Making DDL serializable is *not* simple, and half-baked hacks won't
make that situation better ...
        regards, tom lane


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