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Jeff Davis escribió:
> On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 16:18 -0700, Bill Todd wrote:
> > Savepoints do not provide the same functionality as nested or parallel
> > transactions because you cannot commit a savepoint.
> 
> What does it mean to "commit" a subtransaction or savepoint? What can
> you do with a subtransaction that you can't do with a savepoint?

What Bill wants is an "autonomous" transaction.  We don't have those yet
(except thru use of dblink or database connections inside a function.)

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