Re: [HACKERS] Packages: Again - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Packages: Again
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Msg-id 20170111202250.GH8584@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Packages: Again  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 03:08:58PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 08:56:23PM +0100, Fabien COELHO wrote:
> > 
> > >I think we need to focus on things that _can't_ be done first, rather
> > >than things that require porting, e.g. until we had savepoints, you
> > >couldn't migrate an application that needed it.  It wasn't a question of
> > >porting --- there was just no way to port it.
> > >
> > >Those _missing_ pieces should be a priority.
> > 
> > Nested/autonomous transactions? Do they occur often in PL/SQL code?
> 
> Yes, they do based on the number of "I can't port from Oracle"
> complaints we used to get, perhaps related to exceptions.  Once we had
> them, the complaints of that type disappeared.

Oh, I was talking about savepoints/nested-transactions, not autonomous
transactions.

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