Re: [PATCHES] [RFC] extended txid docs

2007-11-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
Marko Kreen wrote: > On 10/16/07, Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marko Kreen") writes: > > > Even the realistic code may be too much for general docs, > > > but considering this is not a functionality covered > > > by general SQL textbooks, I think it is worth havin

Re: [PATCHES] [RFC] extended txid docs

2007-10-18 Thread Marko Kreen
On 10/17/07, Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Marko Kreen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thanks. Here is a version with your changes applied, plus > > minor code cleanup and example output. > > I can't really see the reasoning for putting this into the PG > documentation. It's tremendousl

Re: [PATCHES] [RFC] extended txid docs

2007-10-17 Thread Tom Lane
"Marko Kreen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks. Here is a version with your changes applied, plus > minor code cleanup and example output. I can't really see the reasoning for putting this into the PG documentation. It's tremendously complicated and doesn't seem like something very many peop

Re: [PATCHES] [RFC] extended txid docs

2007-10-17 Thread Marko Kreen
On 10/16/07, Chris Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marko Kreen") writes: > > Even the realistic code may be too much for general docs, > > but considering this is not a functionality covered > > by general SQL textbooks, I think it is worth having. > > > > I also put rendere

Re: [PATCHES] [RFC] extended txid docs

2007-10-16 Thread Chris Browne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Marko Kreen") writes: > Even the realistic code may be too much for general docs, > but considering this is not a functionality covered > by general SQL textbooks, I think it is worth having. > > I also put rendered pages up here: > > http://skytools.projects.postgresql.org/txi

[PATCHES] [RFC] extended txid docs

2007-10-16 Thread Marko Kreen
Although the new txid functions are very clean 1:1 interface to the internal MVCC info and they don't need much docs in that respect, their "killer" usage comes from the possibility to query txids committed between 2 snapshots. But how to do that (efficiently) is far from obvious when just looking