Re: Basic subtransaction facility

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Basic subtransaction facility
Date: 2004-04-29 20:04:10
Message-ID: 20040429200410.GG4503@dcc.uchile.cl
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 07:29:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I think his point was that there are some errors that should abort
> > the outer transaction too. I think Alvaro mentioned out of memory,
> > but that is a FATAL error. Alvaro, what error were you thinking of
> > that should abort the outer transaction?
>
> Theoretically, if you abort the inner transaction, that could free up
> memory for use by the outer transaction.

Yes, this is planned to happen.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"La tristeza es un muro entre dos jardines" (Khalil Gibran)

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