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		AtlasBarfed on Feb 18, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Many small queries are efficient in SQLite I can see the obvious parallels between memory management lifetimes and transaction management, does rust have explicit features for extending lifetimes to resources besides memory?

lixtra on Feb 19, 2021 [–]

Yes, it works for files, network connections and database transactions[1].

To span a transaction over two functions, it has to be assigned to some variable and the lifetime of this variable is tracked by the compiler.

[1] https://docs.rs/sqlx/0.3.0/sqlx/struct.Transaction.html

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