| From: | Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: SGML cleanup |
| Date: | 2004-08-23 01:43:02 |
| Message-ID: | 41294BA6.6060907@opencloud.com |
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> <para>
>>! The SQL2003 standard specifies that the keyword
>>! <literal>SAVEPOINT</> is mandatory. <productname>PostgreSQL</> and
>>! <productname>Oracle</> allow the <literal>SAVEPOINT</literal>
>>! keyword to be omitted. SQL2003 allows only <literal>WORK</>, not
>
>
> Why are we mentioning Oracle behavior at all?
One of the influences on the SAVEPOINT/ROLLBACK syntax was avoiding
gratuitous incompatibility with Oracle; doesn't it make sense to
document this?
-O
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