On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 20:53 +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote: > And there is most important question about data visibility - is > autonomous transaction independent on main transaction (isolation)?
>From looking at how Oracle does them, autonomous transactions are completely independent of the transaction that originates them -- they take a new database snapshot. This means that uncommitted changes in the originating transaction are not visible to the autonomous transaction. On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 08:13 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote: > Yes, I think autonomous transactions should be on the TODO. They're > useful for > - error logging > - auditing > - creating new partitions automatically I think they would also be useful to implement procedures that perform DDL operations or COMMITs / ROLLBACKs. -Neil ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: You can help support the PostgreSQL project by donating at http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate