Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:49:46PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * 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?

Just because it's ugly and too long ... I think the standard spelling is
ROLLBACK, and ABORT is a Postgres extension.  Since nested xacts are a
Postgres extension, we might as well extend our own syntax :-)

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