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sam escribió:
> On Mar 11, 5:39 pm, alvhe...@commandprompt.com (Alvaro Herrera) wrote:
> > sam escribió:
> >
> > > Iam not able to understand if this is a version problem or the way iam
> > > using savepoints is wrong.Please advice.
> >
> > It is. You cannot use savepoints in PL/pgSQL functions (or any function
> > for that matter). You can use EXCEPTION clauses instead.
> Then u please tell me how save points can be used...........The
> program iam working on is throwing an 'LIMIT EXCEEDED' error so iam
> trying to commit data so that a total rollback does not occur.Like
> commiting data after every 1000 transactions. I figured that
> savepoints would be the solution.
No, savepoints will not help you there. No matter what you do, you
cannot commit in the middle of a function.
What's the limit being exceeded? Perhaps you can solve your problem
some other way.
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Alvaro Herrera Developer, http://www.PostgreSQL.org/
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