Re: TODO: Add a GUC to control whether BEGIN inside

On 1/2/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Lukas Kahwe Smith <smith@pooteeweet.org> writes:
> > Err, I think you misunderstood what I said. My implementation uses
> > SAVEPOINTs already. The point is having some API where you do not have
> > to care of you are already in a transaction or not.
>
> It's not that hard, is it?
>
>        if (PQtransactionStatus(conn) == PQTRANS_IDLE)
>                PQexec(conn, "BEGIN");
>        else
>                PQexec(conn, "SAVEPOINT foo");
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>

and  how the releases and commit will happen? all at once or one by one?

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