On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 18:38 -0400, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 02:01:37PM -0500, Thomas Swan wrote: > > Is there going to be an option to abort the complete transaction without > > knowing how deep you are? Perhaps something like "ABORT ALL". > > > > The reason I suggest this, is that I can foresee an application or user > > leaving nested transactions open inadvertently, or not knowing how > > deeply nested they are when they are called. It's just a thought, and I > > didn't recall any mention of something like it on the list. > > If we change the syntax, say by using SUBCOMMIT/SUBABORT for > subtransactions, then using a simple ABORT would abort the whole > transaction tree. >
But then we're back to the application having to know if its in a regular transaction or a sub-transaction aren't we? To me that sounds just as bad. "ABORT ALL" sure would be nice. -- Mike Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org