Re: "stored procedures"

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: "stored procedures"
Date: 2011-04-22 01:34:57
Message-ID: FA40E036-FB50-46B5-84BE-4CA2607B210B@gmail.com
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On Apr 21, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> If you do it that (base it on AT) way, then you can't:
> 1) call any utility command (vacuum, etc)
> 2) run for an arbitrary amount of time
> 3) discard any locks (except advisory)
> 4) deal with serialization isolation/mvcc snapshot issues that plague functions.

It is not obvious to me that you cannot do these things.
>

...Robert

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