Re: function within a function/rollbacks/exception handling

On Tuesday, November 08, 2011 7:13:03 am Lori Corbani wrote:
> Richard,
>
> I manage to find one comment about an implicit rollback in a section of
> the developer's guide when porting from Oracle-to-Postgres:  "when an
> exception is caught by an EXECPTION clause, all database changes since
> the block's BEGIN are automatically rolled back"
>
> Do you know of any other place in the documentation this discusses the
> implicit rollback in more detail?  Or do you know of a good online site
> that contains some good examples or best-practices for these
> function-to-function calls?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/interactive/plpgsql-control-
structures.html#PLPGSQL-ERROR-TRAPPING

>
> We are starting to port our Sybase database (200 stored procedures) over
> to Postgres and I am finding the online Postgres documentation and the
> Douglas book a bit lacking in some of the more specific examples that I
> am interested in finding.
>
> Thanks.
> Lori
>
>
>

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