Re: Limit on updates made in a transaction

Use transactions

If you have it stored in a transaction you can rollback the whole 
transaction on any error

Begin;

INSERT INTO foo VALUES ('bar');
INSERT INTO foo's VALUES ('bar'); <-- produce error

Rollback;

Now foo will not have the row bar in it

HTH

On 26 Jul 2002, Kent Tong wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there is any limit on the number of updates made to a 
> postgreSQL database in a single transaction? If yes, how 
> can we get around this problem? For example, we need to
> update a field of many existing rows in a table triggered 
> by the addition of a new row. If anything fails in the
> update process, we'd like to undone everything (including
> the addition of the new row).
> 
> Thanks in advance for any info!
> 
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