On 2012-01-20, Lincoln Yeoh <lyeoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it viable to have very many prepared transactions? As in tens of > thousands or even more? > > The idea is so that a web application can do _persistent_ > transactional stuff over multiple pages/accesses/sessions and have it > rolled back easily, or committed if desired. I'm thinking that it > might be better to do this instead of reinventing transactions at the > application layer. why not uses "session" like everyone else does, don't load the database down with managing website logic. > Would it be better to have separate postgresql databases for this? > One for the persistent transactions stuff, and one for "normal" > stuff, which will manage the persistent transactions. what isolation level do you need for your "persistant transactions"? -- ⚂⚃ 100% natural -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general