Re: Nested transactions

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:41:54PM -0700, Bill Todd wrote:
> Does PostgreSQL support nested transactions as shown below?
>
> BEGIN;
>  ...do some stuff...
>  BEGIN;
>    ...more stuff...
>  COMMIT;
> COMMIT;

It depends what you want to have happen when the outer transaction
rolls back.  If you want all the sub-commits to roll back, use
SAVEPOINTs.  If you don't, you'll have to write something in an
untrusted PL that uses a separate database connection.

Cheers,
David.
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