"Zeugswetter Andreas SB SD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> which might not be for every statement. Savepoints that you don't >> actually need are going to be a fairly expensive overhead, AFAICS.
> Well with other db's per statement rollback is a no overhead feature, > so this is pg specific. I very much doubt that. We are not expending any disk I/O to do rollback, which is not true in (say) Oracle. I'm concerned about the internal bookkeeping overhead. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly