Re: A transaction in transaction? Possible?

O Peter Eisentraut έγραψε στις Nov 10, 2004 :

> Achilleus Mantzios wrote:
> > Wouldn't make more sense to allow nested begin/commit/rollback
> > blocks?
> 
> Possibly.  But that consideration would have been more relevant about 6 
> years ago when they wrote the SAVEPOINT syntax into the SQL standard. 
> :)

In other words, now with savepoints, BEGIN; COMMIT; ROLLBACK;
can be replaced with
SAVEPOINT foo; RELEASE foo; ROLLBACK TO foo; respectively.

If only transactions weren't a requirement for SAVEPOINTs,
what would we then need BEGIN; COMMIT; ROLLBACK; for?


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-Achilleus