Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> From looking at how Oracle does them, autonomous transactions are
>> completely independent of the transaction that originates them -- they
>> take a new database snapshot. This means that uncommitted changes in the
>> originating transaction are not visible to the autonomous transaction.
> Oh! Recursion depth would need to be tested for as well. Nasty.
Seems like the cloning-a-session idea would be a possible implementation
path for these too.
regards, tom lane