Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 18:38 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:01:37PM -0500, Thomas Swan wrote:
> > Is there going to be an option to abort the complete transaction without 
> > knowing how deep you are?  Perhaps something like "ABORT ALL".
> > 
> > The reason I suggest this, is that I can foresee an application or user 
> > leaving nested transactions open inadvertently, or not knowing how 
> > deeply nested they are when they are called.  It's just a thought, and I 
> > didn't recall any mention of something like it on the list.
> 
> If we change the syntax, say by using SUBCOMMIT/SUBABORT for
> subtransactions, then using a simple ABORT would abort the whole
> transaction tree.
> 

But then we're back to the application having to know if its in a
regular transaction or a sub-transaction aren't we? To me that sounds
just as bad. 

"ABORT ALL" sure would be nice.

-- 
Mike Benoit <ipso@snappymail.ca>