Re: Reporting the commit LSN at commit time

From: Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Reporting the commit LSN at commit time
Date: 2014-08-19 10:21:39
Message-ID: 20140819102139.GD5762@awork2.anarazel.de
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On 2014-08-19 08:21:10 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 08/19/2014 01:03 AM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > 2. I agree that it's not good to have this get controlled by a GUC.
> > If the behavior change is big enough that it's going to break clients,
> > adding a GUC isn't a sufficient remedy. If it's not, adding a GUC is
> > unnecessary.
>
> There's plenty of agreement on "not a GUC" - but what about alternatives?

What's the problem with the COMMIT WITH (report_lsn on) I've proposed?
Reporting the LSN in the command tag? Anything doing transparent
failover needs to be aware of transaction boundaries anyway.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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