| From: | Nicholas Walker <nick(at)walkerdatanet(dot)com> |
|---|---|
| To: | Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Subject: | Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion |
| Date: | 2005-08-26 17:13:21 |
| Message-ID: | 430F4DB1.7070309@walkerdatanet.com |
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Dennis Bjorklund wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
>
>
>>> SavePoints be able to use within functions. ( I think this involves
>>>making procedures that execute outside of a transaction)
>>>
>>>
>>Nope, supported in 8.0 for PL/pgSQL. Not sure about other languages.
>>
>>
>
>You can't use savepoints, you can trap errors which is implemented using
>savepoints. You still might want to write code like this:
>
>BEGIN
>
>....
>
>SAVEPOINT foo;
>
>....
>
>IF SOME_ERROR_CODE = 1234 THEN
> ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT foo;
>END
>
>...
>
>
>You can write code like this if you issue each command from the client,
>say using libpq, but not in pl/pgsql.
>
>
>
I agree, and I think savepoints would be much more usefull if you could
call them from pl/pgsql...
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