Re: [PATCHES] nested xacts and phantom Xids

2004-06-23 Thread Tom Lane
Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It'd be good to have savepoints right now. I'm not sure it'd be good to > expose the nested transactions implementation if we are going to offer > savepoints later, because it means we will have to keep nested > transactions forever. Nested transaction

Re: [PATCHES] nested xacts and phantom Xids

2004-06-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:57:11AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > I am sorry to have given Alvaro another idea that didn't work. It allowed me to learn a lot of cool tricks, so it wasn't wasted work. The only think I'm sorry about is that I should have used the time for something more useful, like

Re: [PATCHES] nested xacts and phantom Xids

2004-06-23 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 08:58:15AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > If we add nested transactions for 7.5, are we going to need savepoints > too in the same release? If we don't, are we going to get a lot of > complaints? It'd be good to have savepoints right now. I'm not sure it'd be good to expos

Re: [PATCHES] nested xacts and phantom Xids

2004-06-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 04:37:16PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here I present the nested transactions patch and the phantom Xids patch > > > that goes with it. > > > > I looked at the phantom XIDs stuff a bit. I still have li

Re: [PATCHES] nested xacts and phantom Xids

2004-06-23 Thread Bruce Momjian
If we add nested transactions for 7.5, are we going to need savepoints too in the same release? If we don't, are we going to get a lot of complaints? -- Bruce Momjian| http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a ha

[PATCHES] Digital Mars C++ - Clients

2004-06-23 Thread Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema
L.S., I've made a patch against PostgreSQL 7.4.3 to be able to compile 'libpq'  and 'psql'  with Digital Mars C++. As Digital Mars C++ doesn't support 'popen()' and 'pclose()' calls yet, I was in need to patch some psql .c files to let them work well with the Digital Mars C++ port. One c

[PATCHES] make_ctags change

2004-06-23 Thread Gavin Sherry
Exuberant ctags adds data at the beginning of the tags file. It also sorts the tags file by default. This means, if we sort the file generated by Exuberant ctags, it doesn't work in VIM and possibly other editors. I didn't notice this until recently because I was using my own script. Its possible