newbieish exception/multilevel transactions - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alex Pilosov
Subject newbieish exception/multilevel transactions
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Msg-id Pine.BSO.4.10.10010082330420.19791-100000@spider.pilosoft.com
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Hi,

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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