Transactions in PGAgent Jobs

From: David Greco <David_Greco(at)harte-hanks(dot)com>
To: "PgAdmin Support (pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org)" <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Transactions in PGAgent Jobs
Date: 2013-09-04 16:16:12
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How does one deal with transactions in PGAgent jobs? I have many scenarios where I will loop through a set of data, run a function on each, and commit whatever succeeds or rollback whatever fails. In Oracle, I was doing this with pl/sql scripts run via sqlplus and cron. In Postgres, I set them up as pgAgent jobs but so far it is either committing or rolling back all. Since I cannot do any transactions within the functions being run by pgAgent, can the pgAgent step SQL contain support for them?

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