No - a function implicity runs in a transaction anyway.
Chris
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Dan Schwitalla wrote:
> Can you imbed BEGIN; and COMMIT; statements in the body of a pl/pgsql
> function?
>
> I am getting a parse error upon execution when I try it.
>
> Code:
>
> CREATE FUNCTION chitadj(integer,integer) RETURNS integer AS '
> DECLARE
> result integer;
> oldamount integer;
> BEGIN
> BEGIN;
> SELECT INTO oldamount chits FROM avatar
> WHERE avatar_id = $1;
>
> IF oldamount IS NULL THEN
> RETURN -1;
> END IF;
>
> IF ((oldamount < abs($2)) AND ($2 < 0)) THEN
> RETURN -2;
> END IF;
>
> result := oldamount + $2;
> RETURN result;
> COMMIT;
> END;
> ' language 'plpgsql';
>
>
>
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> Dan
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