Re: A transaction in transaction? Possible?

Sorry, but I understand that your example is not really about nested
transactions, but about sequential transactions.

so, the primary question remains:

how to commit/rollback them ?

--- Michael Fuhr <__> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:23:02AM +0300, sad wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 18:24, Theodore Petrosky wrote:
> > > I thought nested transactions are available in the new
> > > release (8) coming up.
> >
> > how to commit/rollback them ?
>
> CREATE TABLE person (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT NOT NULL);
>
> BEGIN;
> INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('Tom');
> SAVEPOINT foo;
> INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('Dick');
> ROLLBACK TO foo;
> INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('Harry');
> COMMIT;
>
> SELECT * FROM person;
> id | name
> ----+-------
> 1 | Tom
> 3 | Harry
> (2 rows)
>
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