Re: savepoints and upgrading locks

Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
>
> http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches
>
> It will be applied as soon as one of the PostgreSQL committers reviews
> and approves it.

Wait a minute. Would the mentioned patch be this one?
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general/73330

Because it was later declared not working; see
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.postgresql.devel.general/73334

> Jeff Davis wrote:
> >
> > This thread here became a TODO item:
> >
> > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2006-11/msg01011.php
> >
> > During that discussion a patch was produced that nobody seemed to have
> > objections to. The main problem seemed to be that it wouldn't always
> > downgrade the lock on a ROLLBACK TO (as I understand it), which doesn't
> > seem like a problem to me.

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