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Re: Begin block


  • From: Raymond O'Donnell <rod(at)iol(dot)ie>
  • To: Carol Walter <walterc(at)indiana(dot)edu>
  • Cc: pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org
  • Subject: Re: Begin block
  • Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:57:50 +0100
  • Message-id: <4A4BA39E.1030304@iol.ie> <text/plain>

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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