* Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dblink connections to your own database are very seldom a good idea; > there is always a better, more efficient, less deadlock-prone way > to do it. In this case I'd venture that you want to use a SECURITY > DEFINER function, and not dblink at all.
The one case I've seen where people are trying to do this is where they want to provide some kind of notification or log to a table to be visible prior to the current transaction actually committing. I can see how this could be useful for long-running transactions or function calls (It'd actually be useful in some of the work I've been doing, but we've worked around it by providing NOTICE's when we're debugging and splitting the long running function into multiple function calls when we want more fine-grained information about where we're at in the process for users to view). Thanks, Stephen
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