Re: transactions in plpgsql

Joe Conway has recently created a dblink patch, which allows the use of
local dblink calls to simulate nested transactions. It worked nicely for
my purposes.

Oleg

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Huxton [mailto:dev(at)archonet(dot)com]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:49 AM
To: Martin Marques; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] transactions in plpgsql

On Friday 19 March 2004 13:01, Martin Marques wrote:
> I'm building some functions in plpgsql, and I got to a point where I
> thought: How are transactions used in the function? Is it posible to
> rollback the modifications that were made to the tables at some point
> in the plpgsql function?

You can abort the entire transaction by raising an exception. Nothing
more
sophisticated is available at the moment.

There might well be nested transactions in 7.5

--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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