Re: autonomous transactions

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Pavel Stehule <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Roberts, Jon" <Jon(dot)Roberts(at)asurion(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: autonomous transactions
Date: 2008-01-23 08:26:52
Message-ID: 1201076812.6730.6.camel@goldbach
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On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 20:53 +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:
> And there is most important question about data visibility - is
> autonomous transaction independent on main transaction (isolation)?

>From looking at how Oracle does them, autonomous transactions are
completely independent of the transaction that originates them -- they
take a new database snapshot. This means that uncommitted changes in the
originating transaction are not visible to the autonomous transaction.

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 08:13 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> Yes, I think autonomous transactions should be on the TODO. They're
> useful for
> - error logging
> - auditing
> - creating new partitions automatically

I think they would also be useful to implement procedures that perform
DDL operations or COMMITs / ROLLBACKs.

-Neil

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