From: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Rajeev rastogi <rajeev(dot)rastogi(at)huawei(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Autonomous Transaction (WIP) |
Date: | 2014-04-08 20:19:30 |
Message-ID: | 20140408201930.GZ4161@awork2.anarazel.de |
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On 2014-04-08 16:13:21 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm also pretty unconvinced that multiple PGPROCs is the right way to
> > go. First, PGPROCs have a bunch of state in them that is assumed to
> > exist once per backend. We might find pretty substantial code churn
> > there if we try to go change that. Second, why do other backends
> > really need to know about our ATs? As far as I can see, if other
> > backends see the AT as a subtransaction of our top-level transaction
> > up until it actually commits, that ought to be just fine.
>
> If we can make it work like that, sure. I'm a bit worried about how you'd
> decouple a subtransaction and commit it atomically ... or if that's not
> atomic, will it create any problems? The point being that you need to
> change both pg_subtrans and pg_clog to make that state transition.
I think it can be made work sensibly - while those states are changed it
will still appear to be running via the procarray. There's some fun
around suboverflowed entries, but I think that can be handled by
reserving an entry for autonomous transactions.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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