Walker, Jed S wrote:
> I am coding a procedure to purge data from a table. I want to commit the
> data I'm purging at intervals (for example, every 1000 rows). The
> problem I'm encountering is that when I have
>
> begin transaction;
> commit;
>
> statements in my plpgsql function it doesn't compile.
>
> How can you explicitly create transactions within a plpgsql function?
No, you can not, sorry, but you might as well just do the entire thing
in the single transaction of the function.
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