Re: Embedded transactions

John Wells wrote:
> On this page: http://www.compiere.org/technology/independence.html, the
> project leader of Compiere (a popular ERP package) states that the move to
> Postgres failed because of lack of support of embedded
> transactions...something both Oracle and DB2 support.
>
> Can someone explain to me excactly what embedded transactions are and why
> they're challenging enough to not be included in Postgres or MySQL? I'm
> guessing it's some sort of begin/commit/rollback transactions within
> being/commit/rollback blocks, but I may be trivializing it.

They want:

BEGIN;
INSERT
BEGIN;
INSERT;
-- failure
ROLLBACK;
INSERT;
COMMIT;

so if the insert fails, they can continue with their transactions. They
are kind of hard to do, but we are working on it:

http://momjian.postgresql.org/main/writings/pgsql/project

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