[HACKERS] Syntax of transaction identifiers

2005-10-03 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Why are the transaction identifiers used in the 2PC commands lexical strings rather than identifiers? Shouldn't database objects be identifiers and strings be purely data objects? Or is there some standard or precedent on that? -- Peter Eisentraut http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

Re: [HACKERS] Syntax of transaction identifiers

2005-10-03 Thread Tom Lane
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why are the transaction identifiers used in the 2PC commands lexical strings rather than identifiers? Shouldn't database objects be identifiers and strings be purely data objects? Or is there some standard or precedent on that? I proposed the