Re: Transactions and Locks writing in PLPGSQL

And what happen when the function call an other function. Does this action
also be rolled back if the first fail ?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Anatoly K. Lasareff" <tolik@aaanet.ru>
To: "Allan Kamau" <hugebirdwings@yahoo.com>
Cc: <pgsql-admin@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Transactions and Locks writing in PLPGSQL


> >>>>> "AK" == Allan Kamau <hugebirdwings@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>  AK> Hi all,
>  AK> How do I write transaction statements like 'BEGIN
>  AK> WORK'... in PLPGSQL.
>  AK> Also how do I write lock statements in the same.
>  AK> Thank you in advance.
>
>  AK> Allan Kamau
>
> There is no possibility for this. See (from manual):
>
> (3) You also cannot have transactions in PL/pgSQL procedures. The
> entire function (and other functions called from
>     therein) is executed in a transaction and PostgreSQL rolls back
> the results if something goes wrong. Therefore
>     only one BEGIN statement is allowed.
>
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