Tom Lane wrote:
> Pavel Golub <pavel@microolap.com> writes:
>
>> Is there any possibility that Postgres will have named transaction
>> ever, like Firebird?
>>
>
> What in heck is a named transaction, and why should we care?
>
>
>
Isn't this just another name for a subtransaction or inner transaction
that can be separately committed?
begin transaction bar; ... begin transaction foo; ... commit foo; ... rollback bar;
foo's work is still committed.
People have been hacking this up using dblink calls, I believe, but
that's a horrid kludge.
cheers
andrew
