Michael Paquier <michael@paquier.xyz> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 07:31:57AM +0200, Laurenz Albe wrote:
>
>> I have seen people use savepoints in PostgreSQL to emulate Oracle's
>> "statement rollback" behavior: If a statement fails, only the statement
>> is undone, but the transaction continues.
>>
>> If you insert a savepoint before *every* statement in a transaction,
>> you can get a similar behavior in PostgreSQL, but the performance will
>> suck.
>
> The Postgres ODBC driver actually does that, and I have seen
> applications actually ready to pay the cost of extra round trips to the
> server to be able to get this property, even if that costs performance.
> You can issue a query through the driver and rollback at will this way
> to the previous state of the transaction.
Yep and it's fun watching the txid counter go up so fast too!
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> Michael
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