On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 04:07:19PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > We can't actually release anything (commit the subtransactions), because
> > they may be savepoints established after that point, and they are
> > logically "inside" the previously established ones. At RELEASE we can't
> > really release -- we just lose the name and thus the opportunity to
> > rollback to it.
>
> Oh, good point. Yes, those savepoints in between are still active. But
> do we release anything on subxact commit? I though it was only on xact
> abort, and that does invalidate all the savepoints in between.
Yes, we free some things. Granted it's not a lot, but we have stacks
for several things that will be always be growing with savepoints, but
we can chop their heads off with "commit nested."
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
Jason Tesser: You might not have understood me or I am not understanding you.
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