On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:46:56AM +1200, Oliver Jowett 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. > > The 2003 draft claims that RELEASE SAVEPOINT invalidates savepoints > subsequent to the RELEASE:
In our case, invalidating a savepoint does not mean we can release its resources. We can only do that if it's the latest defined savepoint. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) "Cuando miro a alguien, más me atrae cómo cambia que quién es" (J. Binoche) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
