Is it possible to nest transactions within a stored procedure? I have a stored procedure that calls many other stored procedures and what happens it that after a certain amount of time the server runs out of shared memory. I know I can increase the PostgreSQL shared memory. However, that would be a temporary fix. I know it will eventually run out again as more data is processed. The right way to do it is to do issue a save point or commit at various places in my long stored procedure. I want to believe that there is a way to issue commits within a stored procedure since PostgreSQL now supports nested transactions.
Any help or work around would be appreciated. Thanks.
Andy Nykolyn
Northrop Grumman