Re: Autonomous transaction

Robert Haas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> > Yea, having some things in our system be non-transactional is odd and
> > hard to understand. ?Just thinking about it, it seems it would introduce
> > all sorts of odd behaviors.
> 
> I think it would be really useful, though, for users and maybe even
> for system internals.  Working out the semantics is a challenge, but
> not an insurmountable one, I think.

Yea, it is going to feel like a ship with a leaky hull, so we are going
to have to re-think a bunch of stuff, like how do we handle visibility,
cleanout of old rows from UPDATE, etc.

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