| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Minor comment update for DELETE |
| Date: | 2005-11-18 15:06:47 |
| Message-ID: | 6112.1132326407@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> BTW, I noticed the following comment a few lines down in execMain.c
> (circa line 1564):
> * note: we can't run UPDATE queries with transactions
> * off because UPDATEs are actually INSERTs and our
> * scan will mistakenly loop forever, updating the tuple
> * it just inserted.. This should be fixed but until it
> * is, we don't want to get stuck in an infinite loop
> * which corrupts your database..
> This seems obsolete; I'll remove it shortly barring any objections.
No, this is still correct, note the bootstrap-mode test at the start of
the function.
regards, tom lane
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