essages should it issue any
         <span class="emphasis"><em>commit</em></span> messages.
    </p>
      <p>
         In the case of nested transactions, preparing the parent causes all
         unresolved children of the parent transaction to be committed.  Child
         transactions should never be explicitly prepared.  Their fate will be
         resolved along with their parent's during global recovery.
    </p>
      <p>
     	All open cursors in the transaction are closed and the
     	first curso