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25311	"Docs: ""You may perform partial commits ..."" Sorry you can't. Commits are ACID. They are durable xor not."	Thomas Güttler	nobody	"There is vague description on:
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/db/transactions/#tying-transactions-to-http-requests

""You may perform **partial** commits ...""


Sorry, you can't. Commits are ACID. They are durable xor not. They can't be partial.


Some years ago I was wondering why transactions in PostgreSQL are not nestable. I needed some time to understand it. The fact: Transaction can't be nested.

I would write:

""You may perform subtransactions via savepoints ...""

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