Re: _RollbackFunc : dead code?

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 05:07:39PM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 16:01 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> writes:
> > > So I think this is dead code. The attached patch removes it.
> >
> > Yeah, it is dead code; it's a leftover from Vadim's old plan to implement
> > Oracle-style UNDO. AFAIK none of the current crop of hackers wants to
> > proceed in that direction, so we may as well remove the last traces.
>
> Agreed.
>
> We still need to explain *why* at some point, but thats still one of my
> WIPs.

Sorry, what's your WIP? Explain why nobody wants to implement UNDO? Or
implement UNDO? Or why at some point somebody wanted to implement UNDO?

Now I remember that in the WAL docs there is a paragraph or two
mentioning that in a future project we want to implement UNDO ... maybe
it's a good idea to rip that off.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[(at)]dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>)
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