On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 05:02:37PM +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Just as a side-note: Oracle also allows you to commit a "transaction" even if some of the statements failed
True. I always thought that was a bizarre bug. Certainly, it would
be the day you did
BEGIN;
INSERT INTO sale $bunch of stuff;
INSERT INTO xact_log $stuff-with-money-deducted;
UPDATE account SET balance = balance-?COST WHERE customer_id = ?ID;
---ERROR here for no permission
COMMIT;
Or anyway, that's how I look at it.
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