On 05/22/11 10:45 AM, Darren Duncan wrote:
>> ...but your entire application would be running in a single
>> transaction. I don't think thats a good thing.
>
> Absolutely. But if the kind of stored procedures were supported that
> can do anything a database client can do, including transaction
> control statements, then the main program routine would typically be
> one of those.
yes, but postgres doesn't support the idea of stored procedures callable
outside of transactions, so I don't know how this could be implemented
without some major rework of the core engine.
for the sake of the novices amongst us, let me clarify my earlier
statement that a single long running transaction is not a good thing.
Vacuum can not free up tuples newer than the oldest pending
transaction. This will put quite a lot of hurt on a update intensive
database over a period of hours or days.
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