On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Jim Nasby <jim.na...@bluetreble.com> wrote: > On 10/28/14, 3:48 PM, Simon Riggs wrote: >> Given your description of pg_background it looks an awful lot like >> infrastructure to make Autonomous Transactions work, but it doesn't >> even do that. I guess it could do in a very small additional patch, so >> maybe it is useful for something. > > What do you see as being missing for autonomous transactios?
Personally, I don't see this patch set as having much to do with real autonomous transactions. > BTW, what I think would make this feature VERY useful is if it provided the > ability to fire something up in another backend and leave it running in the > background. You *can* do that. I mean, long-running transactions will have their usual problems, but if you want to kick off a long-running (or a short-running query) in the background and forget about it, this patch lets you do that. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
