Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:46:00PM +0200, Dennis Bjorklund wrote:

> One can have many different semantics, here are 3 versions:
> 
>  1) You release savepoints in any order
>  2) You release savepoints in reverse order
>  3) You release any savepoints and later ones then the
>     one you released are automatically released.
> 
> I don't see any of these as absurd. The ansi spec uses number 3.

Ah-ha, now I see what I failed to see previously: all later savepoints
are also released!  This makes a lot more sense.  So "release" is
exactly like commit nested, allowing several levels to be "committed".

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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