On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:39 PM, Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 09, 2015 at 10:04:01AM -0400, Robert Haas wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Noah Misch <n...@leadboat.com> wrote: >> > What design principle(s) have you been using to decide how autonomous >> > transactions should behave? >> >> I have to admit to a complete lack of principle. I'm quite frightened >> of what this is going to need from the lock manager, and I'm trying to >> wriggle out of having to do things there that are going to be nastily >> hard. My wriggling isn't going very well, though. > > It's an exceptionally-challenging development project, agreed. So much code > assumes the 1:1 relationship between backends and top-level transactions.
I guess I'm being obtuse, but can you explain why that assumption must be revisited? I don't see why it has to be...I must be missing something. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers