Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > > Yeah. We agreed in principle awhile back to "fix" this on the backend
> > > side by postponing the actual transaction start until the first command
> > > after BEGIN. I looked at this just before 7.4 feature freeze, but
> > > decided it wasn't quite trivial and I hadn't time to make it happen.
> > > No one's gone back to work on it during the 7.5 cycle either.
> > >
> > > Right now I'm not wanting to touch that code since both Alvaro and the
> > > 2PC guy have open patches against it...
>
> Actually, my patch is waiting for you to review it ;-) On the other
> hand, since I'm already touching that code, maybe I can include it in my
> patch. Or would you prefer to keep those things separate?
Alvaro, can I ask what is left? I know you have pg_subtrans, but what
plans do you have to abort subtransactions and bring the system back to
the state before the subtransaction started?
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