Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

Tom Lane wrote:

>Mike Benoit <ipso@snappymail.ca> writes:
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>>On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 18:38 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
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>>>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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>>But then we're back to the application having to know if its in a
>>regular transaction or a sub-transaction aren't we? To me that sounds
>>just as bad. 
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>Someone (I forget who at this late hour) gave several cogent arguments
>that that's *exactly* what we want.  Please see the prior discussion...
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>Right at the moment I think we have a consensus that we should use
>SUBBEGIN/SUBEND or some such keywords for subtransactions.  (I do not
>say we've agreed to exactly those keywords, only that it's a good idea
>to make them different from the outer-level BEGIN/END keywords.)
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Either approach still needs some mechanism to clear the current stack of 
transactions and subtransactions.   That's why I was thinking ABORT ALL 
and ROLLBACK ALL would be sufficient to cover that and be clear enough 
to the user/programmer.

>There was also some talk of offering commands based around the notion of
>savepoints, but I'm not sure that we have a consensus on that yet.
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>            regards, tom lane
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