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Re: Tab completion of SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Michael Paesold <mpaesold@gmx.at>
Cc: Csaba Nagy <nagy@ecircle-ag.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-01-31T20:16:13Z
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Michael Paesold wrote:

> Perhaps not multiple connections, but multiple transactions per connection, 
> like Oracle supports, AFAIK. All with a big ;-) of course. I doubt it would 
> be easy to implement that. The assumption 
> one-connection-has-one-transaction is probably pretty deeply burried in 
> many backend components. Has this been changed by the prepared-transactions 
> stuff? I may be mistaken, which would be very positive news.

No, you're not mistaken.  The 2PC stuff works by reassigning the
transaction to a sort-of "phantom backend".

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Alvaro Herrera                        http://www.advogato.org/person/alvherre
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