| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | meskes(at)topsystem(dot)de (Meskes, Michael) |
| Cc: | sferac(at)proxy(dot)bazzanese(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, pgsq-bugs(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, sferac(at)bo(dot)nettuno(dot)it |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] drop table inside transactions |
| Date: | 1998-04-17 14:48:08 |
| Message-ID: | 199804171448.KAA20560@candle.pha.pa.us |
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>
> Is this really a bug? I haven't seen any (commercial) system supporting
> this kind of transaction recovery. Once you drop a table the data is
> lost, no matter if you rollback or not.
>
> Michael
>
Meta-data changes, like drop table, are not roll-back-able. I knew this
was a reported problem, but I don't think it is required by standard, so
it is not on the TODO list.
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