On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > > SAVEPOINT == BEGIN NESTED
> > > > RELEASE SAVEPOINT == COMMIT NESTED
> > > > ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT == ROLLBACK NESTED
> > >
> > > Here it should be:
> > >
> > > ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT == ROLLBACK NESTED; SAVEPOINT;
> > >
> > > And just to clearify, this is an extension to the spec that we then have
> > > to support for a long time. Adding this now and then replacing it with the
> > > standard syntax is not very sexy. If we add this we should support
> > > it "for ever".
>
> Sorry, I confused folks. I should have corrected this line too:
>
> > > ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT == ROLLBACK NESTED; BEGIN NESTED;
Hmm, yes. Correct.
Luckily, we already had: SAVEPOINT == BEGIN NESTED so it all worked out
:-)
> It is not a non-standard behavior. It is only an implementation detail
> used internally that allows nested transactions to implement savepoints.
The non-standard part I was talking about was the savepoints without
names, and that is what we should support for ever if we introduce them.
--
/Dennis Björklund
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