Re: Transactions within a function body

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Alvaro Herrera
<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>wrote:

> 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.

I have seen this feature being asked for, and this work-around suggested so
many times. If plpgql does it internally, why not provide a clean interface
for this? Is there some road-block, or that nobody has ever tried it?

If there are no known limitations, I'd like to start work on it.

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