Re: [HACKERS] Understanding transactions

2004-06-04 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jonathan Gardner wrote: Seeing how PITR, nested transactions, and other exciting developments related to transactions are being developed, I am getting curious about how PostgreSQL actually implements transactions. Investigating Materialized Views has led me to look closely at how transactions w

Re: [HACKERS] Understanding transactions

2004-06-03 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 05:38:21PM -0700, Jonathan Gardner wrote: > Do you know of good resources on learning how transactions are implemented > in PostgreSQL? Should I just peruse the code? Which files are most > relevant? backend/access/transam/xact.c (high level transaction status) and backe

[HACKERS] Understanding transactions

2004-06-03 Thread Jonathan Gardner
Seeing how PITR, nested transactions, and other exciting developments related to transactions are being developed, I am getting curious about how PostgreSQL actually implements transactions. Investigating Materialized Views has led me to look closely at how transactions work and such. Do you kn