On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 11:20:30AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> AFAIR, the only state that's guaranteed to work like that is
> statement_timestamp. Of course you have to worry whether your machine
> is fast enough to do more than one client interaction within whatever
> the clock resolution is.
i'll check it, thanks for tip.
> I think the real question here is why you want this behavior at all;
> to me it smells of not having thought the problem through correctly.
> As an example of why this bothers me: what if the user's query is
> rewritten into several queries by a RULE? Should you consider each
> of those to be a separate user-issued SQL command? Does your answer
> change if you know that the user himself prepared the RULE? (Do you
> think users will be happy if statement X followed by statement Y
> acts differently in a rule than elsewhere?)
definitelly. i need this only for some specific functions operating
within selects. i'll blog it as soon as i'll get all the details :)
depesz
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