Re: Reporting the commit LSN at commit time

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reporting the commit LSN at commit time
Date: 2014-08-19 13:50:11
Message-ID: 20140819135011.GA30525@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-08-19 21:47:26 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 08/19/2014 06:21 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > What's the problem with the COMMIT WITH (report_lsn on) I've proposed?
> > Reporting the LSN in the command tag? Anything doing transparent
> > failover needs to be aware of transaction boundaries anyway.
>
> Tom's objection to a GUC applies there too - a client app can send that
> when the underlying driver doesn't expect to get the results.

I don't really think this is true. With a GUC it's set for the whole
session or even users. With such a option to COMMIT it'd only set when
issued by something that actually does transparent failover (i.e. the
underlying driver).

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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