Re: Anybody have an Oracle PL/SQL reference at hand?

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Gavin Sherry <swm(at)linuxworld(dot)com(dot)au>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Anybody have an Oracle PL/SQL reference at hand?
Date: 2004-08-04 01:55:42
Message-ID: 4110421E.6090904@familyhealth.com.au
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>>> BEGIN;
>>> SAVEPOINT start;
>>> INSERT INTO users VALUES(user || suffix);
>>> EXIT;
>>> EXCEPTION
>>> WHEN UNIQUE_VIOLATION THEN
>>> ROLLBACK TO start;
>>> suffix := suffix + 1;
>>> END;

> By the way, while I know Oracle won't abort the transaction, they might
> rollback whatever work the command that failed had done; I'm not really
> sure how that's handled.

How about a new EXCEPTION clause:

EXCEPTION NO ROLLBACK
WHEN UNIQUE...

Chirs

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