Re: how to start a procedure after postgresql started. - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Darren Duncan
Subject Re: how to start a procedure after postgresql started.
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Msg-id 4DD9C563.3060206@darrenduncan.net
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In response to Re: how to start a procedure after postgresql started.  (John R Pierce <pierce@hogranch.com>)
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John R Pierce wrote:
> On 05/22/11 10:45 AM, Darren Duncan wrote:
>> 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.

Well, one can dream.  I also anticipate that this limitation will be gone some
day.  I may even help remove it some day if it comes to that. -- Darren Duncan

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