Re: Autonomous Transaction is back

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 6:01 AM, Craig Ringer <craig@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> That should be practical to special-case by maintaining a list of
> parent transaction (virtual?) transaction IDs. Attempts to wait on a
> lock held by any of those should fail immediately. There's no point
> waiting for the deadlock detector since the outer tx can never
> progress and commit/rollback to release locks, and it might not be
> able to see the parent/child relationship from outside the backend
> doing the nested tx anyway.

I think we're going entirely down the wrong path here.  Why is it ever
useful for a backend's lock requests to conflict with themselves, even
with autonomous transactions?  That seems like an artifact of somebody
else's implementation that we should be happy we don't need to copy.

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