Re: [HACKERS] [bug fix] Savepoint-related statements terminates connection

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure I see the use case for anyone using SAVEPOINTs in this
> context, so simply throwing a good error message is enough.
>
> Clearly nobody is using this, so lets just lock the door. I don't
> think fiddling with the transaction block state machine is anything
> anybody wants to do in back branches, at least without a better reason
> than this.

I don't think you can say that, per se the following recent report:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAH2-V61vxNEnTfj2V-zd+mA-g6kQMJgd5SvXoU3JBvdzQH0Yfw@mail.gmail.com
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Michael