[Boulder Ruby Group] rfc

[ara.t.howard]

On Sep 19, 2007, at 11:04 PM, Lee Marlow wrote:

> This definitely looks more sane and is what I would expect.  I wonder
> if you submitted it as a patch to rails whether it could make it into
> 2.0.

i haven't looked at the 2.0 source, but i imagine quite a bit has  
changed - probably too much for this patch...


> Is this not in rails already because the savepoints and nested
> transactions aren't standard across most databases?

well - it doesn't really support nested transactions per-se.  that is  
to say that rails wraps alot of stuff in transactions but, if you are  
already in one, it's kind of moot.  so these transactions are really  
ruby transactions - where the many of them stack into only one db  
transaction.  as far as savepoints it doesn't really matter if they  
are implemented or not.  in sane_transactions you can simply not use  
them for unsupported dbs...  but you are right that only pg/oracle  
and a few others support them.

cheers.

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