Re: Transactions within a function body - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Transactions within a function body
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Msg-id 20081002003442.GG3878@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: Transactions within a function body  ("Dennis Brakhane" <brakhane@googlemail.com>)
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Dennis Brakhane escribió:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Reg Me Please <regmeplease@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > Is there a way to have (sub)transactions within a function body?
> > I'd like to execute some code (a transaction!) inside a function and later
> > decide whether that transaction is to be committed or not.
>
> You could issue a "SAVEPOINT name". If at the end you don't want your
> changes to apply, you can issue a "ROLLBACK to name"

Actually you can't use SAVEPOINT nor ROLLBACK TO within a function.  In
PL/pgSQL you can use EXCEPTION blocks (if you don't like the changes,
just do a RAISE EXCEPTION, and the exception block is run).

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