On Jan 4, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Gianni Ciolli wrote: > On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 04:58:08PM -0600, Jim Nasby wrote: >> Except AFAIR Oracle uses the term to indicate something that is >> happening *outside* of your current transaction, which is definitely >> not what the proposal is talking about. > > That feature is commonly translated in PostgreSQL to a dblink-based > solution, which itself is not distant from the current proposal, at > least in terms of inside/outside (the biggest difference I can see is > on sharing temporary tables). > > But I am not sure I understand your remark; it would be clearer to me > if you could provide an example explaining the difference.
As I understand your proposal, you are doing everything in a single backend and a single transaction... you're just providing a means to split one transaction into smaller pieces. Is that not the case? -- Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect j...@nasby.net 512.569.9461 (cell) http://jim.nasby.net -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
