On Sep 29, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:51:24PM -0700, Sriram Dandapani wrote:
>>
>>> The target table has triggers that route data to appropriate
>>> tables. The
>>> tables to which data is routed has check constraints that do further
>>> inserts. (All of this happens in 1 jdbc transaction)
>>>
>> Actually, no matter what JDBC is doing, all of that will happen
>> within a
>> single transaction on the database (unless you're using something
>> like
>> dblink from within the triggers). So even if you were issuing insert
>> statements with autocommit on, you'd see at most one transaction per
>> insert.
>>
>
> The triggers might use subtransactions. You get implicit
> subtransactions if have an EXCEPTION clause in a plpgsql function.
> I'm not sure if there's other things that do that as well.
Ahh, I thought that was handled within cmin/cmax.
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Jim Nasby jim@nasby.net
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