PREPARE TRANSACTION and webapps - Mailing list pgsql-general

Hi,

Is it OK to use PREPARE TRANSACTION and COMMIT PREPARED in order to have
transactions that last longer than just a single web request?

Previously it was usually a bad idea to keep database connections alive
just to keep a transaction pending.

Now I'm thinking that we could keep transactions around for as long as the
relevant web _session_ is valid. That will be quite nice for many things.

Would it be easier to support X "prepared transactions" than X database
connections for increasing values of X?

Thanks,

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