Re: Exposing the Xact commit order to the user - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: Exposing the Xact commit order to the user
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Msg-id 4BFAF56E.3090005@Yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Exposing the Xact commit order to the user  (Dan Ports <drkp@csail.mit.edu>)
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On 5/24/2010 3:10 PM, Dan Ports wrote:
> I'm not clear on why the total rowcount is useful, but perhaps I'm
> missing something obvious.

It is a glimpse into the future. Several years of pain doing replication 
work has taught me that knowing approximately who much work the next 
chunk will be "before you select it all" is a really useful thing.


Jan

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