| From: | "Jonah H(dot) Harris" <jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Gokulakannan Somasundaram" <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | "Alvaro Herrera" <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Gregory Stark" <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, "Neil Conway" <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, "Pavel Stehule" <pavel(dot)stehule(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Roberts, Jon" <Jon(dot)Roberts(at)asurion(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: autonomous transactions |
| Date: | 2008-01-24 03:35:22 |
| Message-ID: | 36e682920801231935i58a56674s8621d738f7fcb438@mail.gmail.com |
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On Jan 23, 2008 10:06 PM, Gokulakannan Somasundaram <gokul007(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 2:46 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> > > The Audit transaction, which is a autonomous transaction need not catch
> any
> > > error and resume the outer transaction.
> >
> > What if the logging fails, say because you forgot to create the audit
> > table?
> >
> I get it now...
Autonomous transactions are, umm, autonomous. The calling transaction
doesn't know about or care whether the autonomous transaction succeeds
or fails for any reason.
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