Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 03:15:46PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > For that matter:
> >
> > begin;
> > savepoint;
> > select 0/0; -- abort
> > savepoint; -- commands will be ignored
> > select 1; -- commands will be ignored
> > release; -- commands will be ignored
> > release; -- abort main xact 'cause we didn't rollback
> > commit; -- abort message
> >
> > Is the above more or less correct, Alvaro?
>
> Save a minor detail. It would be
>
> begin;
> savepoint;
> select 0/0; -- abort
> savepoint; -- commands will be ignored
> select 1; -- commands will be ignored
> release; -- commands will be ignored
> release; -- commands will be ignored
> commit; -- abort message
>
> Note that I'm trying to tell you something with the indenting; all those
> commands are inside one and the same subtransaction.
>
> And I'm not planning to do anonymous savepoint. Do these buy us
> anything?

Don't bother if you can do named ones.

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