Re: [Gnumed-devel] Comments on 0.2

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 11:59:04AM +0800, Syan Tan wrote:

> has anyone used or know if savepoints work ok ?
used no, known-to-work yes going by the release notes of PG

> The problem is that I think you can
> only rollback to savepoint  when it's issued explicitly,
yes

> i.e. for some reason
> ,e.g. the client
> application wants to rollback before an abort condition occurs. Once you hit
> the abort
> condition, (e.g. too late a concurrent write), I don't think rollback occurs
> back to the savepoint,
> but rather the whole transaction is aborted.
yes, you need to issue explicit savepoints

Karsten
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