On 2020/04/10 3:16, Alexey Kondratov wrote:
On 2020-04-09 16:33, Tom Lane wrote:
Fujii Masao <masao.fu...@oss.nttdata.com> writes:
On 2020/04/09 16:11, Kyotaro Horiguchi wrote:
At Wed, 08 Apr 2020 16:35:46 -0400, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote in
Why is this getting grafted onto BEGIN/START TRANSACTION in the
first place?
The rationale for not being a fmgr function is stated in the following
comments. [...]
This issue happens because the function is executed after BEGIN? If yes,
what about executing the function (i.e., as separate transaction) before BEGIN?
If so, the snapshot taken in the function doesn't affect the subsequent
transaction whatever its isolation level is.
I wonder whether making it a procedure, rather than a plain function,
would help any.
Just another idea in case if one will still decide to go with a separate
statement + BEGIN integration instead of a function. We could use parenthesized
options list here. This is already implemented for VACUUM, REINDEX, etc. There
was an idea to allow CONCURRENTLY in REINDEX there [1] and recently this was
proposed again for new options [2], since it is much more extensible from the
grammar perspective.
That way, the whole feature may look like:
WAIT (LSN '16/B374D848', TIMEOUT 100);
and/or
BEGIN
WAIT (LSN '16/B374D848', WHATEVER_OPTION_YOU_WANT);
...
COMMIT;
It requires only one reserved keyword 'WAIT'. The advantage of this approach is
that it can be extended to support xid, timestamp, csn or anything else, that
may be invented in the future, without affecting the grammar.
What do you think?
Personally, I find this syntax to be more convenient and human-readable
compared with function call:
SELECT pg_wait_for_lsn('16/B374D848');
BEGIN;
I can imagine that some users want to specify the LSN to wait for,
from the result of another query, for example,
SELECT pg_wait_for_lsn(lsn) FROM xxx. If this is valid use case,
isn't the function better?
Regards,
--
Fujii Masao
Advanced Computing Technology Center
Research and Development Headquarters
NTT DATA CORPORATION
