Re: subtransactions -- storage manager - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: subtransactions -- storage manager
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Msg-id 200404301349.i3UDn8f09868@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: subtransactions -- storage manager  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
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Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > If you add pg_subtrans, you will need to make recovery work all over
> > > again...really, you don't want to be doing that, do you?
> > >
> > > I also have other questions....
> > > Forgive my lack of attention: I want SAVEPOINTs, not subtransactions...
> > > how do we do those?
> >
> > Savepoints are basically just a BEGIN at the save point, and a ROLLBACK
> > to get you back to the saved spot.  It is just window-dressing on top of
> > nested transactions.
> >
>
> OK, but is anybody working on the window dressing bit, so that we have
> ANSI compliant commands?

Not sure but that part should be easy once we have the stuff working.

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