Re: Nested xacts: looking for testers and review

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 05:43:41PM -0700, Stephan Szabo wrote:

> On Wed, 26 May 2004, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
> > I have tested it and it passes all regression tests (including ones I
> > added), plus some more tests I threw at it mainly for concurrency.
> > Everything behaves as expected. At this time I'd like to have it
> > reviewed by the critic eye of the committers, and tested by whoever
> > would be using it.
>
> I unfortunately didn't really follow the discussions in the past (sorry :(
> ), but are the transaction state modifying statements done in a
> subtransaction supposed to live beyond subtransaction rollback?

Hmm, I suppose not.

I think this applies to all GUC variables, but I wonder if we want to
save the value of each one at subtransaction start and recover it at
abort? Things could easily get huge. Maybe only saving the ones that
are different from the default value, and from the last saved value.

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