Greg Stark <gsstark@xxxxxxx> writes: > Tom Lane <tgl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> What this would actually be useful for is a fair question >> though --- what's it do that you don't have now? > I think what they want to do is make the database concept of transactions > match up 1-1 with their application's concept of transactions. Which may span > multiple stateless http requests. [ itch... ] This seems to me to fly right in the face of the oft-repeated advice that you don't hold a transaction open while the user thinks about it, goes off to lunch, vacations in the Bahamas, etc. The question remains: what problem are we solving that actually should be solved? regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings