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Why won't most DBMSes allow to rollback certain DDL statements?

Recently I found out that MySQL doesn't support rollback of DDL such as "alter table"... Being used to PostgreSQL, that struck me as odd, but a friend of mine told me that even Oracle doesn't allow it.. Are there technical reasons for not supporting it? Is it simply an "uninteresting" feature for them?

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