Re: synchronized snapshots

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de> wrote:
> * Simon Riggs:
>
>> I don't see the need to change the BEGIN command, which is SQL
>> Standard. We don't normally do that.
>
> Some language bindings treat BEGIN specially, so it might be difficult
> to use this feature.

It's true, the command might require explicit support from language
bindings. However I used some perl test scripts, where you can also
send a START TRANSACTION command in an $dbh->do(...).

The intended use case of this feature is still pg_dump btw...


Joachim