Re: Basic subtransaction facility - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Basic subtransaction facility
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Msg-id 20040429200410.GG4503@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: Basic subtransaction facility  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 07:29:07PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I think his point was that there are some errors that should abort
> > the outer transaction too.  I think Alvaro mentioned out of memory,
> > but that is a FATAL error.  Alvaro, what error were you thinking of
> > that should abort the outer transaction?
>
> Theoretically, if you abort the inner transaction, that could free up
> memory for use by the outer transaction.

Yes, this is planned to happen.

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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"La tristeza es un muro entre dos jardines" (Khalil Gibran)

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