Christophe Pettus <xof@thebuild.com> writes:
> A procedure cannot issue top-level transaction control statements from within an exception block, and attempting to
doso raises the error you saw. This includes procedures that are called from within an exception block.
Yeah. Postgres doesn't have autonomous transactions (not yet anyway),
and you can't fake them like that.
A way that does work, I believe, is to set up a second session with
dblink[1] and use that to issue the autonomous transaction. Ugly
and inefficient for sure, but if you've gotta have it...
regards, tom lane
[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/dblink.html