| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org>, 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 19:59:02 |
| Message-ID: | 20040709195902.GA27599@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 03:34:47PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
> > > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > >
> > > > Clearly savepoints do not allow for a snapshot to be released; nested
> > > > xacts do.
> > >
> > > Why not?
> >
> > What is it?
>
> Simon posted it. It is called RELEASE:
We can't actually release anything (commit the subtransactions), because
they may be savepoints established after that point, and they are
logically "inside" the previously established ones. At RELEASE we can't
really release -- we just lose the name and thus the opportunity to
rollback to it.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
Major Fambrough: You wish to see the frontier?
John Dunbar: Yes sir, before it's gone.
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