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authorHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>2010-05-27 06:25:32 +0000
committerHeikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi>2010-05-27 06:25:32 +0000
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Make it more clear that you need to release savepoint with
RELEASE SAVEPOINT to make an older savepoint with the same name accessible. It's also possible to implicitly release the savepoint by rolling back to an earlier savepoint, but mentioning that too would make the note just more verbose and confusing.
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-rw-r--r--doc/src/sgml/ref/savepoint.sgml9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/savepoint.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/savepoint.sgml
index 72b718fcf65..d2c58e5b661 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/savepoint.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/savepoint.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/savepoint.sgml,v 1.7 2010/04/03 07:23:02 petere Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/savepoint.sgml,v 1.8 2010/05/27 06:25:32 heikki Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -116,9 +116,10 @@ COMMIT;
savepoint with the same name is established. In
<productname>PostgreSQL</>, the old savepoint is kept, though only the more
recent one will be used when rolling back or releasing. (Releasing the
- newer savepoint will cause the older one to again become accessible to
- <command>ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT</> and <command>RELEASE SAVEPOINT</>.)
- Otherwise, <command>SAVEPOINT</command> is fully SQL conforming.
+ newer savepoint with <command>RELEASE SAVEPOINT</> will cause the older one
+ to again become accessible to <command>ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT</> and
+ <command>RELEASE SAVEPOINT</>.) Otherwise, <command>SAVEPOINT</command> is
+ fully SQL conforming.
</para>
</refsect1>