Re: why postgresql over other RDBMS - Mailing list pgsql-general

From A.M.
Subject Re: why postgresql over other RDBMS
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Msg-id F89FBDDA-8F33-4517-AA88-118A97EB07D0@themactionfaction.com
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In response to Re: why postgresql over other RDBMS  (PFC <lists@peufeu.com>)
List pgsql-general
On May 24, 2007, at 18:12 , PFC wrote:

>
>>> Indeed. Wouldn't it be a cool feature to persists transaction states
>>> across connections so that a new connection could get access to a
>>> sub-
>>> transaction state? That way, you could make your schema changes and
>>> test them with any number of test clients (which designate the state
>>> to connect with) and then you would commit when everything works.
>
>     Actually you can hack this by starting your webserver with only 1
> thread, use persistent connections, and disable all commits in the
> application.
>     But I'd call that "a very hackish hack".

Not really- then I can't use any transactions, in which case, I might
as well use MySQL. I would like to be able to pass transaction state
between connections.

-M


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