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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>
Cc: Riccardo G. Facchini <abief_ag_-postgresql@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org, Theodore Petrosky <tedpet5@yahoo.com>
Cc: Andrei Bintintan <klodoma@ar-sd.net>
Cc: sad <sad@bankir.ru>
Subject: Re: A transaction in transaction? Possible?
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:28:17 -0500
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Achilleus Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com> writes:
> Just a very naive thought....
> Wouldn't make more sense to allow nested begin/commit/rollback blocks?

We actually had it working that way initially, but changed to the
spec-defined behavior, because (a) it wasn't standard, and (b) it
was confusing.  See the pghackers archives.

			regards, tom lane



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