Re: A transaction in transaction? Possible?

On Thursday, 11 November 2004 09:23, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Stefan Weiss wrote:
> > These tables are connected by foreign keys, but without "on delete"
> > triggers.
>
> Why "without" ? Are you looking to solve a problem introduced by
> yourself ?

There are numerous checks involved before a customer (or a contact)
can be deleted, and not all of these checks can be done by querying
the database. Sometimes triggers aren't enough.

> You can handle this task using the new functionality introduced with
> savepoint: the exception. For more information look at:
> http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/pgsql/sgml/plpgsql-control-structures
>.html#PLPGSQL-ERROR-TRAPPING

The "delete contact" and "delete customer" functions are not stored
procedures, so I'm not sure how this can help.


thanks,
stefan