Re: New docs chapter on Transaction Management and related changes

On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 05:46:55PM -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:51 PM Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > Attached is the merged patch from all the great comments I received. I
> > have also rebuilt the docs with the updated patch:
> >
> > https://momjian.us/tmp/pgsql/
> >
>
> + <command>RELEASE SAVEPOINT</command> also subcommits and destroys
> + all savepoints that were established after the named savepoint was
> + established. This means that any subtransactions of the named savepoint
> + will also be subcommitted and destroyed.
>
> Wonder if we should be more explicit that data changes are preserved,
> not destroyed... something like:
> "This means that any changes within subtransactions of the named
> savepoint will be subcommitted and those subtransactions will be
> destroyed."

Good point. I reread the section and there was just too much confusion
over subtransactions, partly because the behavior just doesn't map
easily to subtransaction. I therefore merged all three paragraphs into
one and tried to make the text saner; release_savepoint.sgml diff
attached, URL content updated.

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