RE: newbieish exception/multilevel transactions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Mikheev, Vadim
Subject RE: newbieish exception/multilevel transactions
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Msg-id 8F4C99C66D04D4118F580090272A7A23018D40@SECTORBASE1
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In response to newbieish exception/multilevel transactions  (Alex Pilosov <alex@pilosoft.com>)
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Savepoints will be implemented after WAL.

Vadim

> I was wondering, is it a possibility/projected to have nested 
> transactions in postgres? Would MVCC support that?
> 
> What I would like is following:
> begin tran a;
>   do some work;
>   begin tran b;
>     do some other work
>   rollback b;
> <at this point, only changes by transaction b are rolled back>
> ... 
> commit a;
> 
> Alternatively, is there a way to trap an exception in 
> plpgsql? [I would assume that depends on SPI ability to trap
exceptions...]
> 
> These features are really needed for people who do serious
> database-backend scripting, to compete with sybase (who has multilevel
> transactions) and oracle (who has very good exception handling).
> 
> Thank you
> 
>  -alex
> 


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