--As of November 2, 2011 1:14:40 PM -0700, felix@crowfix.com is alleged to
have said:
> I understand the concepts of savepoints, and I have played with them
> in psql enough to understand that yes, as the fine manual says, they
> must be inside a transaction to work. But how does this relate to DBI
> and DBD::Pg with AutoCommit off? I learned the slow way that if
> AutoCommit is disabled, you don't issue a BEGIN WORK because that
> looks like trying to start a transaction inside a transaction. But I
> I have AutoCommit off and try SAVEPOINT xyzzy, it tells me savepoints
> must be inside a transaction. And of course, I can't get inside a
> transaction because I can't issue a BEGIN WORK because I am already
> inside a transaction.
--As for the rest, it is mine.
Sounds like you are doing things right. What versions of the following are
you using?
DBI
DBD::Pg
Postgres
Also, do you have any example code that shows the problem?
Daniel T. Staal
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