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From sam
Subject Exception handling
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Responses Re: Exception handling  (Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com>)
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Can someone explain me about the exception handling in postgresql. Iam
not understanding the scope of a exception block. The exact confusion
that iam facing is as follows:
I have a procedure as follows
BEGIN
EXECUTE an update statement

EXECUTE an insert statement
EXCEPTION WHEN integrity_conatraint_violation THEN
RAISE NOTICE
END;

This procedure is called within another procedure. Now when an
exception is caught the updates are also getting rolled back. I need
the exception block to work only for the insert statement. But if i
dont write the exception block the whole program stops.
Any suggestions?

Thanks
Sam

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