On 3 Apr 2011, at 11:22, Alban Hertroys wrote: > Oracle and SQL server don't "suffer" from this because they do not handle DDL statements transactionally (I could be mistaken about SQL server, I don't know it all that well). I forgot to mention, if you perform DDL in Oracle all your currently running transactions are implicitly rolled back. That may be something you want to be aware of. Alban Hertroys -- If you can't see the forest for the trees, cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest. !DSPAM:737,4d983e5e651347237915052! -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general