Re: create user and transactions

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>, Hackers List <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: create user and transactions
Date: 2000-06-17 16:54:00
Message-ID: 19124.961260840@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
> I can supply a patch for the create/drop user case since there's not much
> to be lost there. But what about databases? AFAIK there are no plans on
> making their creation and removal transaction friendly at all, so we'd be
> in "NOTICE: don't do that" mode for a very long time.

Agreed, we have no plans to support rollbackable CREATE or DROP
DATABASE, so I don't have an objection to erroring out on them.

But the user & group manipulation commands need to be less picky...

regards, tom lane

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