[ZODB-Dev] PROPOSAL: Explicit transactions for ZODB4

[Lalo Martins]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 11:46:41AM -0400, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
> Also, creating nested transactions is *slightly* more complex.  The current 
> sequence to create a nested transaction (IIUC) is:
> 
> t1 = get_transaction().begin()
> t2 = t1.begin(t1)
> 
> If we do not make any changes other than I have already proposed, it would 
> become the slightly longer:
> 
> tm = TransactionManager()
> t1 = tm.begin()
> t2 = t1.begin(t1)
> 
> Personally, I find both of these approaches ugly, but I don't have any 
> better suggestions at the moment.

If transactions are more explicit, this API can probably be
improved.  However, IMHO improving it is not part of this
proposal; if it passes (personally I'm +1), then after it is
implemented and in use for a few weeks, a new proposal to
improve the subtransaction API can be written.

[]s,
                                               |alo
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