Re: "stored procedures" - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: "stored procedures"
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Msg-id 5665.1303431470@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: "stored procedures"  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> On 4/21/11 3:07 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Maybe we should think about the SP controlling a second backend (or even
>> multiple backends?) that's executing the "transactional" operations.
>> dblink on steroids, as it were.

> This is how people are doing this now (using dblink I mean).

Right, and it works.  But it's notationally painful, management of the
connection information poses security issues, etc etc.  Perhaps those
sorts of things could be addressed, though.
        regards, tom lane


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