Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > Peter Eisentraut wrote: > > On l?r, 2010-01-23 at 12:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >> Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> writes: > >>> Was there a designed-in reason not to have psql tab completion for > >>> COMMIT/ROLLBACK PREPARED ...? It does complete the "PREPARED" but not > >>> the transaction identifiers. Maybe it's not a common use case, but > >>> these transaction identifiers sure can be nontrivial to type. > >> Hmm, what's the use scenario? I would think that painfully long > >> gxids would come from some XA manager software, which would be > >> responsible for committing or canceling them. Manual override > >> of that would usually be a bad idea. > > Right, I vaguely recall that the idea of tab-completion for those > commands was rejected when 2PC was added because of that. A user sitting > at a psql terminal is not supposed to prepare a transaction. That's > application server's business.
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