David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 01:45:21PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: >> Thanks, but after lots of discussion, it turns out the community >> doesn't want to add such functions, and I have removed it from the >> TODO list.
> From what I recall of the discussion, the lack of interest was in > actually stepping up and doing it, not in the feature itself. Um, no: there were serious concerns first about the snapshot semantics (MVCC vs SnapshotNow behavior) and second that we'd be condemning ourselves to support duplicative functionality in pg_dump and the backend for the foreseeable future. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend