Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:46:56AM +1200, Oliver Jowett 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.
> 
> The 2003 draft claims that RELEASE SAVEPOINT invalidates savepoints 
> subsequent to the RELEASE:

In our case, invalidating a savepoint does not mean we can release its
resources.  We can only do that if it's the latest defined savepoint.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Cuando miro a alguien, más me atrae cómo cambia que quién es" (J. Binoche)