Re: autonomous transactions

Hi,

On 2016-08-30 21:50:05 -0400, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I would like to propose the attached patch implementing autonomous
> transactions for discussion and review.
> 
> This work was mostly inspired by the discussion about pg_background a
> while back [0].  It seemed that most people liked the idea of having
> something like that, but couldn't perhaps agree on the final interface.
> Most if not all of the preliminary patches in that thread were
> committed, but the user interface portions were then abandoned in favor
> of other work.  (I'm aware that rebased versions of pg_background
> existing.  I have one, too.)

I kind of dislike this approach for a different reason than already
mentioned in this thread: Namely it's not re-usable for implementing
streaming logical replication of large transaction, i.e. allow to decode
& apply un-committed changes.  The issue there is that one really needs
to have multiple transactions active in the same connection, which this
approach does not allow.

That's not necessarily a fatal objection, but I did want to throw that
as a design goal out there.

- Andres