[Persistence-sig] Nested Transactions

Phillip J. Eby pje@telecommunity.com
Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:37:27 -0400


At 05:24 PM 7/22/02 -0400, Jeremy Hylton wrote:
>I would like to see arbitrarily nested transactions supported in the
>next generation transaction API.

Could you add some more specifics?  For example, what happens if a 
transaction participant can't support nested transactions?  I gather that 
this capability is not exactly common, even among SQL databases.