Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:01:37PM -0500, Thomas Swan wrote:
> Is there going to be an option to abort the complete transaction without
> knowing how deep you are? Perhaps something like "ABORT ALL".
>
> The reason I suggest this, is that I can foresee an application or user
> leaving nested transactions open inadvertently, or not knowing how
> deeply nested they are when they are called. It's just a thought, and I
> didn't recall any mention of something like it on the list.

If we change the syntax, say by using SUBCOMMIT/SUBABORT for
subtransactions, then using a simple ABORT would abort the whole
transaction tree.

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