On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Alvaro Herrera wrote:

> That's why it's absurd.  Why allow an operation which isn't really an
> operation?

Same reason why you allow an addition with 0. One can say that it's 
not really an operation either.

One can have many different semantics, here are 3 versions:

 1) You release savepoints in any order
 2) You release savepoints in reverse order
 3) You release any savepoints and later ones then the
    one you released are automatically released.

I don't see any of these as absurd. The ansi spec uses number 3.

It might seem absurd to you, given the implementation you have made.

-- 
/Dennis Björklund


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