Long transactions

[Paul Ramsey]

This is done now.

> On Apr 22, 2024, at 8:15 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2024 at 01:00:16AM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:
>>> How do we feel about removing the “long transaction” code?
>>> 
>>>  doc/reference_transaction.xml
>>>  extras/WFS_locks
>>>  postgis/long_xact.sql.in
>>>  postgis/uninstall_long_xact.sql.in
>>>  regress/core/long_xact.sql
>>> 
>>> It was originally written in hopes that WFS services might use them so that it
>>> would be possible to have shared lock management in the database, but that
>>> never actually happened. So it’s been fallow for going on 20 years.
>>> 
>>> ???
>>> 
>>> P=
>> Sandro and I were discussing this a couple of days ago, that we'll need something like that for topology locking,
>> But I think you are probably right given know one has looked at that piece of code in 20 years, would be better to start from scratch
>> anyway if we need such a thing.  So I'm okay with you ripping it out.
>> 
>> Sandro - any thoughts on the matter?
> 
> Feel free to remove it, we have a way to dig it back if we need it
> for reference.
> 
> --strk;