Greg Stark <greg.stark@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 17, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>> Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com> writes:
>>>> Is there any possibility that Postgres will have named
>>>> transaction ever, like Firebird?
>>>
>>> What in heck is a named transaction, and why should we care?
> I'm curious what they ate too
I don't know about Firebird, but in Sybase the transaction name just
shows up in the process list, so you can tell what type of transaction
is running. It's a solution to the "what the heck is that idle
transaction from" -- as long as meaningful transaction names are
consistently used.
-Kevin