On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 10:04:01AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com> wrote:
>> > What design principle(s) have you been using to decide how autonomous
>> > transactions should behave?
>>
>> I have to admit to a complete lack of principle. I'm quite frightened
>> of what this is going to need from the lock manager, and I'm trying to
>> wriggle out of having to do things there that are going to be nastily
>> hard. My wriggling isn't going very well, though.
>
> It's an exceptionally-challenging development project, agreed. So much code
> assumes the 1:1 relationship between backends and top-level transactions.
I guess I'm being obtuse, but can you explain why that assumption must
be revisited? I don't see why it has to be...I must be missing
something.
merlin
