Re: Two features left

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan(at)nsd(dot)ca>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jon Swinth <jswinth(at)atomicpc(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Two features left
Date: 2002-11-27 20:55:08
Message-ID: 200211272055.gARKt8V29137@candle.pha.pa.us
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The upper transaction really doesn't know of the lower sub-transaction's
abort, unless it looks at the result returned by the subtransaction
commit, just as current code checks the commit of a non-subtransaction.
Is that OK?

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Jean-Luc Lachance wrote:
> My question again is:
>
> How can the upper transaction be aware of an aborted lower transaction?
>
> JLL
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > Right. I hadn't planned on ABORT ALL, but it could be done to abort the
> > > entire transaction. Is there any standard on that?
> >
> > I would be inclined to argue against any such thing; if I'm trying to
> > confine the effects of an error by doing a subtransaction BEGIN, I don't
> > think I *want* to allow something inside the subtransaction to abort my
> > outer transaction ...
> >
> > regards, tom lane
>

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