> On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 04:51:07PM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>
> > 2) certain behavior was different from what I expected (please correct me
> > if my expectation is wrong).
>
> Yes, the expected behavior is different: if an aborted subtransaction is
> closed with a COMMIT or END command, the parent transaction is aborted
> too. This is to inhibit an application which blindly expects the
> subtransaction to succeed to reach an invalid state. If you want to
> return to non-aborted state, end the subtransaction with ROLLBACK
> instead.
Oh, I got it. Thanks.
> But Bob Henkel and you are right: there needo to be documentation.
> Initially I figured I could do that later because there is no new
> syntax, but it is obviously needed to explain all sorts of assumptions
> and behavior like this.
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Tatsuo Ishii
