Dennis Bjorklund wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote: > >> I think we agreed on BEGIN NESTED/COMMIT NESTED, and START NESTED >> TRANSACTION and COMMIT NESTED TRANSACTION. > > Should I read this as pg will get its own implementation of sub > transactions and not implement the almost equivalent standard (sql99) > savepoint feature? > > Will we in the future see savepoints as well?
I'm not a core developer, but that is what it looks like. > And when that happen, should > we then recommend that people use the standard feature and stay away from > the pg only feature? Nested transactions and savepoints serve two different purposes. They have some overlap, but for the most part solve two distinct problems. > > Doesn't anyone but me think is all backwards? > I don't think so, especially as there has been some talk of implimenting savepoints as a subset of nested transactions. --miker ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly