On 01/07/2009 18:52, Carol Walter wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm very much a Postgres PHP novice. I have a number of queries that
> need to be run as a single transaction. One set of those will only be
> run some of the time, but other times will need to be imbedded in
> another block. Can I imbed a begin/commit inside another begin/commit?
Hi there,
I'm not sure about nested transactions, but you can achieve the same
effect with savepoints:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.4/static/sql-savepoint.html
HTH,
Ray.
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