As a fallout of this work that I haven't seen made explicit, a session opening a transaction and then sitting around doing nothing will not cause as many problems as it used to -- for example it won't cause VACUUM to be unable to clean up dead rows. Is this correct?
Nowadays this is no longer much of a problem, but it used to be, back when drivers were more broken than they are now (when they had the commit method send "COMMIT; BEGIN"); however, it still seems to me like a big step forwards. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/5ZYLFMCVHXC "Siempre hay que alimentar a los dioses, aunque la tierra esté seca" (Orual) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
