X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7483A6020 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:48:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 95636-03 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:48:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server226.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.226]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90FC3A5FF7 for ; Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:48:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [64.81.245.111] (account josh@agliodbs.com HELO temoku.sf.agliodbs.com) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 6752965; Mon, 06 Dec 2004 13:49:53 -0800 From: Josh Berkus Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: Greg Stark Subject: Re: Making dirty reads possible? Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:51:27 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 Cc: pgsql-sql@vankoperen.nl, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org References: <41B4986B.70201@vankoperen.nl> <878y8b15gp.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> In-Reply-To: <878y8b15gp.fsf@stark.xeocode.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200412061351.27506.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.043 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL, FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200412/42 X-Sequence-Number: 19662 Guys, > I find I've been stymied using server-side functions for large batch jobs > for pretty much the same reason. I find it works better and it's more > flexible to write client-side programs in the language of my choice that > connect to the database and do the batch jobs. FWIW, Gavin Sherry is working on CREATE PROCEDURE for 8.1, which may include some ability to have multiple-transaction procedures. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco