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Re: [HACKERS] drop table inside transactions

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: meskes@topsystem.de (Meskes, Michael)
Cc: sferac@proxy.bazzanese.com, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org, pgsq-bugs@postgreSQL.org, sferac@bo.nettuno.it
Date: 1998-04-17T14:48:08Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> 
> Is this really a bug? I haven't seen any (commercial) system supporting
> this kind of transaction recovery. Once you drop a table the data is
> lost, no matter if you rollback or not. 
> 
> Michael
> 

Meta-data changes, like drop table, are not roll-back-able.  I knew this
was a reported problem, but I don't think it is required by standard, so
it is not on the TODO list.

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