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Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>

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From: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>
Cc: Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>, Thomas Swan <tswan@idigx.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-07-06T16:49:46Z
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* Alvaro Herrera (alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl) wrote:
> We could use BEGIN NESTED for starting a subtransaction, roll it back
> with ROLLBACK NESTED or some such, and commit with COMMIT NESTED.  But I
> like SUBBEGIN etc best, and no one had an opinion when I asked.  So the
> current code has SUBBEGIN, SUBCOMMIT, SUBABORT.  If people prefer

Just to be pedantic and talking about consistency- 
Why SUBABORT instead of SUBROLLBACK?

	Stephen