Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

From: "Scott Marlowe" <smarlowe(at)qwest(dot)net>
To: "Dennis Bjorklund" <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>
Cc: "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, "Thomas Swan" <tswan(at)idigx(dot)com>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All
Date: 2004-07-07 15:26:07
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On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 00:16, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> > We can later implement savepoints, which will have "SAVEPOINT foo" and
> > "ROLLBACK TO foo" as interface. (Note that a subtransaction is slightly
> > different from a savepoint, so we can't use ROLLBACK TO <foo> in
> > subtransactions because that has a different meaning in savepoints).
>
> What is the semantic difference?

One is in the SQL spec?

For that reason alone, we should probably eventually have the savepoint
syntax work.

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