Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:07:19PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> > We can't actually release anything (commit the subtransactions), because
> > they may be savepoints established after that point, and they are
> > logically "inside" the previously established ones.  At RELEASE we can't
> > really release -- we just lose the name and thus the opportunity to
> > rollback to it.
> 
> Oh, good point.  Yes, those savepoints in between are still active.  But
> do we release anything on subxact commit?  I though it was only on xact
> abort, and that does invalidate all the savepoints in between.

Yes, we free some things.  Granted it's not a lot, but we have stacks
for several things that will be always be growing with savepoints, but
we can chop their heads off with "commit nested."

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