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Cc: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com>,
	Gianni Ciolli <gianni.ciolli@2ndquadrant.it>,
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Subject: Re: Autonomous subtransactions
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>
To: Marti Raudsepp <marti@juffo.org>
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Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:43:51 -0300
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Excerpts from Marti Raudsepp's message of lun dic 19 16:32:06 -0300 2011:

> (I do realize that allowing subtransactions to commit out of order
> also makes it failure prone)

Uhm?  You can't "commit" savepoints out of order.  You can "release" an
older one, but then all the ones following it disappear and can't be
released separately.

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