Re: L - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Josh Tolley
Subject Re: L
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Msg-id e7e0a2570708142010w760d320wc203ca2c97eece7e@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: L  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On 8/14/07, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> > Actually very few RDBMS support transactional DDL, though right this
> > second I do not remember what they do in case you issue DDL inside a
> > transaction. I would assume/hope that they give you an error and not do
> > an implicit commit.
>
> Speaking of which, we should make a big point of our transactional DDL as a
> feature.  It's something that even some of the big proprietary DBs don't
> have.

I second that. Non-transactional DDL has been seriously bugging me in
dealings with Oracle lately.

- Yet Another Josh

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