Re: Transactions within a function body

From: Reg Me Please <regmeplease(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Dennis Brakhane <brakhane(at)googlemail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Transactions within a function body
Date: 2008-10-02 15:18:59
Message-ID: 200810021718.59515.regmeplease@gmail.com
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Il Thursday 02 October 2008 17:10:23 Alvaro Herrera ha scritto:
> Reg Me Please escribió:
> > Il Thursday 02 October 2008 16:15:10 Alvaro Herrera ha scritto:
> > > You can nest blocks arbitrarily, giving you the chance to selectively
> > > rollback pieces of the function. It's only a bit more awkward.
> >
> > You mean I can issue a ROLLBACK command within a BEGIN...END; block to
> > roll it back?
>
> No -- I mean you can use BEGIN/EXCEPTION/END blocks as you like, nesting
> them or putting one after another. Complementing this with RAISE
> EXCEPTION you can cause savepoints to roll back at will.

Now I understand. (Sorry, me dumb!)

Looks quirky, but I trust it's working. I'll give that a try.

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