Re: Transaction commit in a trigger function

Henka wrote:

> Is it possible to (somehow) commit a specific statement in a trigger
> function if the function itself is rolled back because of an error (eg, for a
> unique index error)?

No.  You can use savepoints (or, in PL/pgSQL functions, EXCEPTION
blocks) to inhibit the uniqueness error from aborting the transaction.
There is an example in the error catching section of the PL/pgSQL docs
about the insert-if-fail-update construct.

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