Re: Named transaction

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Golub <pavel(at)gf(dot)microolap(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Named transaction
Date: 2009-06-17 17:40:21
Message-ID: 20090617174021.GJ6750@alvh.no-ip.org
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>> What in heck is a named transaction, and why should we care?
>
> Isn't this just another name for a subtransaction or inner transaction
> that can be separately committed?

AFAIK that's an "autonomous transaction", at least to some other RDBMSs.

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.

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