Re: Nested Transactions, Abort All

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 21:18, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> >
> > Oracle uses ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT...identical pretty much.
>
> I thouht ROLLBACK was different from RELEASE, no? I see ROLLBACK used
> in SQL99 for savepoints:
>
> ROLLBACK [ WORK ] [ AND [ NO ] CHAIN ]
> [ <savepoint clause> ]
>
>
> RELEASE only discards the savepoint name, I thought.
>

ERR-OHH Yes, dead right. Forgive my confusion, I knew there was
something different about Oracle's support of RELEASE. Check out:

https://cwisdb.cc.kuleuven.ac.be/ora10doc/server.101/b10759/ap_standard_sql001.htm

last thing on page...

> > Oracle's support of autonomous transactions looks to be identical to
> > nested transactions (Alvaro's advice required there...). They don't
> > allow you to explicitly call them, but you can use BEGIN/COMMIT in a
> > host program that calls a stored procedure, which also contains
> > BEGIN/COMMIT, effectively giving nested txns.
>
> Oracle has nested transactions too? Can you supply an example?

It's hard to quote a short example.... so try this link instead

http://www.hk8.org/old_web/oracle/guide8i/ch02_05.htm

Wasn't there some description of autonomous transactions on the stuff I
sent previously?

Best Regards, Simon Riggs