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Re: [spf:guess] Re: ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT

Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>

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From: Florian Pflug <fgp@phlo.org>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2010-05-27T00:25:05Z
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On May 27, 2010, at 0:58 , Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 26/05/10 02:00, Sam Vilain wrote:
>> Florian Pflug wrote:
>>> On May 25, 2010, at 12:18 , Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>>>> Releasing the newer savepoint will cause the older one to again become accessible, as the doc says, but rolling back to a savepoint does not implicitly release it. You'll have to use RELEASE SAVEPOINT for that.
>>> 
>>> Ah, now I get it. Thanks.
>>> 
>>> Would changing "Releasing the newer savepoint will cause ... " to "Explicitly releasing the newer savepoint" or maybe even "Explicitly releasing the newer savepoint with RELEASE SAVEPOINT will cause ..." make things clearer?
>> 
>> Yes, probably - your misreading matches my misreading of it :-)
> 
> +1.

Patch that changes the wording to "Explicitly releasing the newer savepoint with RELEASE SAVEPOINT will cause ..." is attached.

Unfortunately, this patch is untested. I couldn't get openjade + DocBook to work on OSX for some reason :-(

best regards,
Florian Pflug