Re: nested xacts and phantom Xids - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: nested xacts and phantom Xids
Date
Msg-id 8298.1088047707@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: nested xacts and phantom Xids  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> It'd be good to have savepoints right now.  I'm not sure it'd be good to
> expose the nested transactions implementation if we are going to offer
> savepoints later, because it means we will have to keep nested
> transactions forever.

Nested transactions are *good*.  We should not hide them.

I don't object to offering spec-compatible savepoints, but the plain
fact of the matter is that that's a dumbed-down API.  We should not
feel constrained to offer only that.

            regards, tom lane

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