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What does "appropriately" mean in this context?

• ltbarcly3 5y ago
  Not automatically inserting subtransactions that aren't necessary, especially when you aren't setting your application up to ever actually use them, as a side effect of something else. Like Django's transaction.atomic(), which at the top nesting level starts and commits a transaction, but which any dynamically nested calls start and commit sub transactions. This is almost never what anybody wants, I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen code that handles failed sub transactions and continues the overall transaction, and which most programmers don't even know how it works or what it does.