Re: Proposal: Select ... AS OF Savepoint

On 11/2/07, Gokulakannan Somasundaram <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> If the proposal is implemented
> BEGIN
>
> savepoint s1;
>
> some DML operations
>
> get current inventory2 = select ...
>
> if current inventory2 is < fixed size
> current inventory1 = select .. as of savepoint s1;
> END
>
> Do you see the difference?

Yes, a completely non-standard and somewhat unusual feature. What I
don't see is why you're wasting time pushing this frankly obscure idea
for time-travel, "only within a transaction". Why not just go all out
and suggest re-adding time-travel completely.

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