Re: Transaction

From: "Oliver Elphick" <olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: "Mihai Gheorghiu" <tanethq(at)earthlink(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Transaction
Date: 2001-09-17 21:06:43
Message-ID: 200109172106.f8HL6hIn017957@linda.lfix.co.uk
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"Mihai Gheorghiu" wrote:
>An event triggers a rule / trigger.
>Does this (event + rule/trigger) behave as a transaction, or is it necessary
>to wrap it into BEGIN...COMMIT? If yes, BEGIN should be before or after the
>event (in the rule/trigger)?

Any single command is a transaction including all its effects, unless it
is part of a larger transaction delimited by BEGIN COMMIT. It doesn't
need its own BEGIN...COMMIT.

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