Re: Basic subtransaction facility

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Manfred Koizar <mkoi-pg(at)aon(dot)at>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Basic subtransaction facility
Date: 2004-04-29 17:29:07
Message-ID: 200404291929.07556.peter_e@gmx.net
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I think his point was that there are some errors that should abort
> the outer transaction too. I think Alvaro mentioned out of memory,
> but that is a FATAL error. Alvaro, what error were you thinking of
> that should abort the outer transaction?

Theoretically, if you abort the inner transaction, that could free up
memory for use by the outer transaction.

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