Re: Named transaction

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 14:38 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
> Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: 
>  
> > Yes, but some other followups suggest that maybe a "named
> > transaction" does something else entirely.  Thus my request for a
> > definition of what the OP is actually asking for.
>  
> Well, a quick google search suggests that all three guesses here were
> off base.  This is the best clue I could find with a two-minute
> perusal:
>  
> # TRANSACTION_HANDLE -> use a named transaction. Firebird allows
> # multiple transactions per connection. In the case below, this
> # request is run in the system transaction - not available outside the
> # engine.  The system transaction number is 0 and it is
> # "pre-committed" meaning that its changes are immediately visible to
> # all other transactions.
>  
> Does that send a nasty chill up anyone else's spine?

That sounds like dirty read, IIRC.

Joshua D. Drake

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