Re: COMMIT leads to ROLLBACK

From: "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Gurjeet Singh" <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Pgsql Hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: COMMIT leads to ROLLBACK
Date: 2006-05-21 18:31:01
Message-ID: c2d9e70e0605211131t2f74cb4ah47d6134768f4e1b5@mail.gmail.com
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On 5/21/06, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> One more question comes to mind. IIRC, Oracle doesn't need you to
> rollback the whole transaction if one statement fails (like constarint
> violation in this case)!!! Does the standard dictate that an error in
> a transaction should force a rollback?
>
> I could be wrong about Oracle; I do not have an Oracle
> installation to check, can somebody verify this?
>
> Regards,
> Gurjeet.
>

that is only possible if you use savepoints and we have them in postgres too.
more than that it's beyond spec i think...

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