Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> But a "savepoint" has a very precise meaning in the SQL standard,
> which relates to points in a transaction you can roll back to. I
> don't think you want to overload with this other meaning, which I see
> as putting a special mark in the XLog -- completely unrelated.
They are completely unrelated because you're considering them on two
different levels. From the user interface level they are both a place
to roll back to. Whether they are inside the same transaction or not
is like the difference between a normal and a holdable cursor, but it's
the same interface.
