Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It'd be good to have savepoints right now. I'm not sure it'd be good to > expose the nested transactions implementation if we are going to offer > savepoints later, because it means we will have to keep nested > transactions forever.
Nested transactions are *good*. We should not hide them. I don't object to offering spec-compatible savepoints, but the plain fact of the matter is that that's a dumbed-down API. We should not feel constrained to offer only that. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])