Re: PREPARE TRANSACTION and webapps - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: PREPARE TRANSACTION and webapps
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Msg-id 87veysttfc.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: PREPARE TRANSACTION and webapps  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:

> > This could be useful if you want to have X pending database transactions
> > and Y max concurrent database connections, where X is significantly greater
> > than Y (magnitudes higher?).
>
> I don't think the prepared-xacts facility has the performance that would
> be needed to sustain that kind of usage.   Suspend/resume would not be
> all that cheap, and a suspended transaction would still hold a lot of
> resources (locks mostly).

Well it'll be better than having to maintain a connection for each
transaction.

--
greg

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