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Re: synchronized snapshots

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Jim Nasby <jim@nasby.net>
Cc: Joachim Wieland <joe@mcknight.de>, Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2011-08-16T22:40:06Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 11:01 -0500, Jim Nasby wrote:
> Also, an invalid transaction seems to be the result of least
> surprise... if you cared enough to begin a transaction, you're going
> to expect that either everything between that and the COMMIT succeeds
> or fails, not something in-between.

Agreed.

Perhaps we need a new utility command to set the snapshot to make the
error handling a little more obvious?

Regards,
	Jeff Davis