Re: Attempting to delete excess rows from table with BATCH DELETE

On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 10:52 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "David G. Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Tuesday, January 27, 2026, Gus Spier <gus(dot)spier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >> I write a procedure to accomplish all this work but it persists in
> >> returning a error to the effect that a COMMIT is not valid in a block
> >> tht tries to DELETE data.
>
> > Haven’t tested to be sure but this doesn’t seem like a community edition
> > limitation.
>
> Yeah, you can definitely do that in standard Postgres (at least since
> we invented procedures).

Hmm. Must have been START TRANSACTION which I remember causing issues in DO
blocks.

--
Death to <Redacted>, and butter sauce.
Don't boil me, I'm still alive.
<Redacted> lobster!