Greg Stark wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 6:40 PM, Alvaro > Herrera<alvhe...@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > AFAIK that's an "autonomous transaction", at least to some other RDBMSs. > > I have no idea what they are in Firebird but the name conjured up a > different (interesting) idea for me. I had the image of naming a > transaction and then being able to have other sessions join that same > transaction. We've discussed this before for connection-pooled systems > which want to be able to return their connection to the pool in the > middle of their transaction. Sounds a bit like a prepared transaction, except that you don't put it aside for later commit but rather "suspend" it. > It would also possibly be useful for parallel data dumps and loads. I think the clone snapshot stuff would be more easily usable for that. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ PostgreSQL Replication, Consulting, Custom Development, 24x7 support -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
