Re: Two features left

From: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan(at)nsd(dot)ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(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 20:50:07
Message-ID: 3DE52FFF.3816036E@nsd.ca
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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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