Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes:
> As per discussion on -hackers, type input functions can be called prior
> to there being a current snapshot, causing any queries you execute to
> fail with the "no snapshot has been set" error. So I propose to simply
> have SPI_connect fail right off the bat and document that to avoid
> future surprises.
This strikes me as a pretty unreasonable restriction. It would be OK
if there were no valid uses of SPI that didn't require a snapshot, but
that's not so. As an example, consider trying to issue a LOCK TABLE
command via SPI (okay, there are other ways to do that, but it's still
a valid example).
regards, tom lane
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