Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

From: Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Pavel Stehule <stehule(at)kix(dot)fsv(dot)cvut(dot)cz>, Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD <ZeugswetterA(at)spardat(dot)at>, Andreas Pflug <pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de>, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All
Date: 2004-07-09 19:07:58
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0407092105020.2838-100000@zigo.dhs.org
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> Clearly savepoints do not allow for a snapshot to be released; nested
> xacts do.

Why not?

> OTOH savepoints are trivial to implement once nested xacts are in place.
> They are only syntactic sugar.

Not only, but simple yes. I'm just opposed to having the non standard
syntax added for the little gain they give over just having standard
savepoints.

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/Dennis Björklund

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