Re: "stored procedures"

From: Joshua Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: "stored procedures"
Date: 2011-04-22 16:45:07
Message-ID: 828069661.182512.1303490707699.JavaMail.root@mail-1.01.com
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Tom,

> >> I'd like a pony, too. Let's be perfectly clear about this: there is
> >> no
> >> part of plpgsql that can run outside a transaction today, and
> >> probably
> >> no part of the other PLs either, and changing that "without major
> >> changes" is wishful thinking of the first order.

I always thought that it was pretty clear that autonomous transactions were a major feature, and very difficult to implement. Otherwise we'd have done SPs back in 7.4 when we first had this discussion.

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Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://pgexperts.com
San Francisco

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