On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:05:45AM +0700, Jeroen T. Vermeulen wrote: > On Tue, February 27, 2007 06:06, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > >> Why do we want this?? Because some apps have *lots* of data and many > >> really don't care whether they lose a few records. Honestly, I've met > >> people that want this, even after 2 hours of discussion and > >> understanding. Plus probably lots of MySQLers also. > > > > Most users will take speed over data loss any day. Whether we want to > > admit it or not. > > In that case, wouldn't it make just as much sense to have an equivalent > for this special transaction mode on individual statements, without > transaction context? I'm guessing that who don't really know or want > transactions would never start one, running lots of loose statements > instead that otherwise get committed individually.
I don't think it makes sense to optimize for people who can't be bothered to learn about a transaction. In any case, that option is there; you just set the GUC in the session. -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
