On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 01:22:53AM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > What about rolling prepares back if they are in a transaction, though? > They still have the ability to affect a transaction, despite being > partially outside of it:
> [example ripped] IMHO this is an oversight, not a design feature. That's why I pointed it out and planned to correct it. I think with the Prepare message we should _not_ abort the transaction if it fails -- if it's outside transaction control, it shouldn't affect the current transaction (So we would open a subtransaction, process the message, and rollback if it fails.) -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "La fuerza no está en los medios físicos sino que reside en una voluntad indomable" (Gandhi) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
