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Re: autonomous transactions

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>

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From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>
Cc: "Roberts, Jon" <Jon.Roberts@asurion.com>, "'pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org'" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2008-01-22T19:04:16Z
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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 10:02 -0600, Roberts, Jon wrote:
> > Maybe someone could enhance this concept to include it with the core
> > database to provide autonomous transactions.
> 
> I agree that autonomous transactions would be useful, but doing them via
> dblink is a kludge. If we're going to include anything in the core
> database, it should be done properly (i.e. as an extension to the
> existing transaction system).

Agreed.  I think Pavel Stehule was doing some experiments with them, I
don't know if he got anywhere.

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