Re: Atomicity in DB transactions (Rollback related)

Could you please give me some quick and helpful pointers for SPI programing
in pl/perl?

Thanks,
Jas

On 6/18/07, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
>
> Jasbinder Singh Bali escribió:
> > Hi,
> > I have a Pl/Perlu function in which I have a statement like this:
> >
> > *******************
> > my $query_tbl_l_header = $dbh->prepare("SELECT
> > sp_insert_tbl_l_header(?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)");
> >
> > my $exec_l_from
> >
> =$query_tbl_l_header->execute($unmask_id,$from,$to,$sender,$subject,$replyto,$cc,$bcc,$messageid,$inreplyto,$reference,$mversion,$con_type,$con_id,$con_des,$con_enc,$con_length,$con_dis);
> > *******************
>
> You have a PL/PerlU opening an independent transaction via DBI? That's
> a bad idea and the explanation to your problem. You should be using SPI
> instead; there are methods for this in PL/Perl.
>
> --
> Alvaro Herrera
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