Coming from an Oracle background my understanding is they're one in the
same.
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>wrote:
> Bob Henkel escribió:
> > Have you looked at creating a function in perl and creating a new
> > connection? Or using a dblink query which can create a new connection?
> > These two methods work. I have used them to insert to a log table
> regardless
> > of the parent transaction being commited or rolled back.
>
> That's a different thing, "autonomous transactions".
>
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