Re: VLDB Features - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: VLDB Features
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Msg-id 7907.1197704696@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: VLDB Features  (NikhilS <nikkhils@gmail.com>)
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NikhilS <nikkhils@gmail.com> writes:
> Any errors which occur before doing the heap_insert should not require
> any recovery according to me.

A sufficient (though far from all-encompassing) rejoinder to that is
"triggers and CHECK constraints can do anything".

> The overhead of having a subtransaction per row is a very valid concern. But
> instead of using a per insert or a batch insert substraction, I am
> thinking that we can start off a subtraction and continue it till we
> encounter a failure.

What of failures that occur only at (sub)transaction commit, such as
foreign key checks?
        regards, tom lane


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