Re: Conditional commit inside functions

Hello,

PostgreSQL has doesn't use rollback segment, so commit over 10000
lines is not necessary, and it is bad.

Regards
Pavel Stehule

2008/12/25 Gerhard Wiesinger <lists(at)wiesinger(dot)com>:
> Hello!
>
> I want to translate the following Oracle PL/SQL script into plpgsql.
> Especially I'm having problems with the transaction thing. i tried START
> TRANSACTION and COMMIT without success.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanx.
>
> Ciao,
> Gerhard
>
> CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE insert_1Mio
> IS
> maxcommit NUMBER;
> BEGIN
> maxcommit := 10000;
>
> FOR i IN 1..1000000 LOOP
> INSERT INTO employee (id, department, firstname, lastname) VALUES (i, i,
> 'John' || to_char(i), 'Smith' || to_char(i));
> IF MOD(i, maxcommit) = 0 THEN
> COMMIT;
> END IF;
> END LOOP;
>
> COMMIT;
> END;
>
>
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