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 4C0819A7.5060409@Yahoo.com
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In response to Re: Exposing the Xact commit order to the user  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Exposing the Xact commit order to the user  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On 6/3/2010 4:04 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> If you want to fork Postgres and add it, go ahead, but if the community
> has to maintain the code and document it, we care.

That comment was rather unprofessional. I think the rest of us still try 
to find the best solution for the problem, not kill the discussion. You 
may want to rejoin that effort.

I care about an efficient, low overhead way to get a certain 
information, that is otherwise extremely difficult, expensive and 
version dependent to get.

I care about cleaning up more of the mistakes, made in the original 
development of Slony. Namely using hacks and kluges to implement 
details, not supported by a current version of PostgreSQL. Londiste and 
Slony made a good leap on that with the txid data type. Slony made 
another step like that with 2.0, switching to the (for that very purpose 
developed and contributed) native trigger configuration instead of 
hacking system catalogs. This would be another step in that direction 
and we would be able to unify Londiste's and Slony's transport mechanism 
and eliminating the tick/sync kluge.

Care to explain what exactly you care about?


Jan

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liberty nor security. -- Benjamin Franklin


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