Re: Multiple Xids in PGPROC?

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: Rod Taylor <pg@rbt.ca>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>, Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-05-05T04:45:45Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> Yup.. And some of us intend on wrapping every single statement in a
> subtransaction so we can rollback on an error without aborting the main
> transaction.

Point there being "main transaction".  What i'm saying is that the vast 
majority of your "transactions" will be single statements.  eg. single 
selects, single updates, etc.

> In fact, I would be surprised if tools like psql went very long without
> doing the same thing so users can recover from spelling mistakes.

If the user does an explicit BEGIN, then perhaps we might, but how often 
does the user do an explicit BEGIN?

Chris