David Fetter <david@fetter.org> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:45:21PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>> Thanks, but after lots of discussion, it turns out the community
>> doesn't want to add such functions, and I have removed it from the
>> TODO list.
> From what I recall of the discussion, the lack of interest was in
> actually stepping up and doing it, not in the feature itself.
Um, no: there were serious concerns first about the snapshot semantics
(MVCC vs SnapshotNow behavior) and second that we'd be condemning
ourselves to support duplicative functionality in pg_dump and the
backend for the foreseeable future.
regards, tom lane
