Robert Haas <robertmh...@gmail.com> writes: > EDB has an implementation of this in Advanced Server. A stored > procedure can issue a COMMIT, which commits the current transaction > and begins a new one. This might or might not be what people are > imagining for this feature. If we end up doing something else, one > thing to consider is the impact on third-party tools like PGPOOL, > which currently keep track of whether or not a transaction is in > progress by snooping on the stream of SQL commands. If a procedure > can be started with no transaction in progress and return with one > open, or the other way around, that method will break horribly. > That's not necessarily a reason not to do it, but I suspect we would > want to add some kind of protocol-level information about the > transaction state instead so that such tools could continue to work.
Huh? There's been a transaction state indicator in the protocol since 7.4 (see ReadyForQuery). It's not our problem if PGPOOL is still using methods that were appropriate ten years ago. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers