Alvaro Herrera wrote: > But a "savepoint" has a very precise meaning in the SQL standard, > which relates to points in a transaction you can roll back to. I > don't think you want to overload with this other meaning, which I see > as putting a special mark in the XLog -- completely unrelated.
They are completely unrelated because you're considering them on two different levels. From the user interface level they are both a place to roll back to. Whether they are inside the same transaction or not is like the difference between a normal and a holdable cursor, but it's the same interface. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])