Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > Right. I hadn't planned on ABORT ALL, but it could be done to abort the
> > entire transaction. Is there any standard on that?
>
> I would be inclined to argue against any such thing; if I'm trying to
> confine the effects of an error by doing a subtransaction BEGIN, I don't
> think I *want* to allow something inside the subtransaction to abort my
> outer transaction ...
Without it, you are required to keep track of your transaction nesting
levels in the application. I don't see a subtransaction aborting the
outer transaction as a problem because once you do ABORT ALL, you are
out of the outer transaction --- at least that's how I assumed it would
work.
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