Re: SetQuerySnapshot, once again

From: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: SetQuerySnapshot, once again
Date: 2002-06-17 09:42:21
Message-ID: 3D0DAEFD.2AABCD25@tpf.co.jp
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> I've been busy working on my presentation on concurrency for the
> upcoming O'Reilly conference. While doing so, I've been thinking
> more about the question of when to do SetQuerySnapshot calls inside
> functions. We've gone around on that before, without much of a
> consensus on what to do; see for example the thread starting at
> http://fts.postgresql.org/db/mw/msg.html?mid=1029236
>
> I have now become convinced that it is correct, in fact necessary,
> to do SetQuerySnapshot for each new user-supplied query, whether
> it's inside a function or not.

I have a question. Could the functions which contain no
queries other than SELECT be stable(returns the definite
result for a query) with it ?

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
http://w2422.nsk.ne.jp/~inoue/

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