Re: Named transaction

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>   
>> Tom Lane wrote:
>>     
>>> What in heck is a named transaction, and why should we care?
>>>       
>> Isn't this just another name for a subtransaction or inner transaction  
>> that can be separately committed?
>>     
>
> AFAIK that's an "autonomous transaction", at least to some other RDBMSs.
>
>   

Right, but since I had to ask what that was recently I though I'd use a 
bit more description :-)

cheers

andrew