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Support for SAVEPOINT syntax

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
mysql, php, sql
Domain
databases

Research direction

Read the linked MySQL SAVEPOINT documentation and trace the parser entry point that handles SQL commands. Add support for SAVEPOINT, ROLLBACK with optional WORK and SAVEPOINT, and RELEASE SAVEPOINT, then verify that all three examples are accepted.

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Description

enhancement kind/support

The extremely limited MySQL manual entry is here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/savepoint.html

We currently don't understand these three commands:

  • SAVEPOINT foo
  • ROLLBACK [WORK] TO [SAVEPOINT] foo where [WORK] is optional
  • RELEASE SAVEPOINT foo
Dominant language
PHP
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