Re: savepoint improvements

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jaime Casanova <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: savepoint improvements
Date: 2007-01-22 15:48:25
Message-ID: 20070122154825.GD29762@svana.org
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:40:37AM -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
> The short version is I would like the ability to run some sql commands

<snip>

> any error updating foo or bar will blow up the whole thing. Maybe
> this is desirable, but it is often nice to be able to do some error
> handling here. In the pre-savepoint NT implementation I could:

<snip>

Nested transactions are trivially implemented on top of savepoints. If
we're talking about psql, maybe all we need to do is create the
commands in psql:

\begin_nest
\commit_nest
\rollback_nest

Would that suit your purpose?

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
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