Use transactions
If you have it stored in a transaction you can rollback the whole
transaction on any error
Begin;
INSERT INTO foo VALUES ('bar');
INSERT INTO foo's VALUES ('bar'); <-- produce error
Rollback;
Now foo will not have the row bar in it
HTH
On 26 Jul 2002, Kent Tong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there is any limit on the number of updates made to a
> postgreSQL database in a single transaction? If yes, how
> can we get around this problem? For example, we need to
> update a field of many existing rows in a table triggered
> by the addition of a new row. If anything fails in the
> update process, we'd like to undone everything (including
> the addition of the new row).
>
> Thanks in advance for any info!
>
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