Re: autonomous transactions

2016-10-11 17:06 GMT+02:00 Petr Jelinek <petr(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>:

> On 10/10/16 16:44, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
> wrote:
> >> On 6 October 2016 at 21:27, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >>> I think we should implement background transactions and call them
> >>> background transactions. That allows us to expose additional
> >>> functionality which is useful, like the ability to kick something off
> >>> and check back later for the results. There's no reason to call it
> >>> background transactions and also call it autonomous transactions: one
> >>> feature doesn't need two names.
> >>
> >> I'm happy to also invoke it via an alternate mechanism or API, so that
> >> it can continue to be used even if the above mechanism changes.
> >>
> >> We have no need to wait for the perfect solution, even assuming we
> >> would ever agree that just one exists.
> >
> > -1 on implementing both autonomous and background transactions. This
> > will confuse everyone.
> >
>
> I personally care much more about having background transactions than
> autonomous ones (as I only ever had use-cases for the background ones)
> so don't agree there.
>

we can, we should to have both - background can be used for paralelism,
autonomous for logging.

they are not 100% replaceable.

Regards

Pavel

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