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> Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Some needed features in postgresql
> Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 00:35:35 +0800
> From: Vadim Mikheev <vadim@krs.ru>
> Organization: OJSC Rostelecom (Krasnoyarsk)
> To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> CC: Peter Garner <peter_garner@yahoo.com>, hackers@hub.org
> References: <1464.925575484@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > > 2.  Is there any work being done on the fact that
> > > transactions are aborted when an error occurs?  It
> > > really lessens the usefulness of the product when,
> > > after adding 20,000 records, the transaction aborts
> > > because the 20,001th record is a dup key! :-)
> >
> > I've griped about that myself in the past, but it's not real
> > clear how else it ought to work.  Maybe you should be using
> > smaller transactions ;-)
> 
> Oracle sets implicit savepoint before processing any
> user' statement.
> 
> We still haven't savepoints but live with hope to implement
> them in future -:) Actualy, having MVCC I would like to see
> savepoints implemented as sooner as possible: there is
> high possibility of aborts in serializable mode...
> 
> Vadim