Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

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.

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