On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:49:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl) wrote:
> > We could use BEGIN NESTED for starting a subtransaction, roll it back
> > with ROLLBACK NESTED or some such, and commit with COMMIT NESTED. But I
> > like SUBBEGIN etc best, and no one had an opinion when I asked. So the
> > current code has SUBBEGIN, SUBCOMMIT, SUBABORT. If people prefer
>
> Just to be pedantic and talking about consistency-
> Why SUBABORT instead of SUBROLLBACK?
Just because it's ugly and too long ... I think the standard spelling is
ROLLBACK, and ABORT is a Postgres extension. Since nested xacts are a
Postgres extension, we might as well extend our own syntax :-)
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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