Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Dennis Bjorklund
Subject Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion
Date
Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0508260857170.2995-100000@zigo.dhs.org
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In response to Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
Responses Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion  (Nicholas Walker <nick@walkerdatanet.com>)
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Josh Berkus wrote:

> >     SavePoints be able to use within functions.  ( I think this involves
> > making procedures that execute outside of a transaction)
> 
> Nope, supported in 8.0 for PL/pgSQL.  Not sure about other languages.

You can't use savepoints, you can trap errors which is implemented using 
savepoints. You still might want to write code like this:

BEGIN

....

SAVEPOINT foo;

....

IF SOME_ERROR_CODE = 1234 THEN  ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT foo;
END

...


You can write code like this if you issue each command from the client, 
say using libpq, but not in pl/pgsql.

-- 
/Dennis Björklund



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