On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 18:04, Matt Miller wrote:
> > > a way to enable a function to commit a unit of work that
> > > does not affect the caller's transaction.
>
> > accomplish autonomous transactions in PL/pgSQL
> > by just using dblink_connect, dblink_open, dblink_exec,
> > and dblink_close?
>
> My initial tests lead me to believe that dblink is a simple and
> effective way to get anonymous transactions.
We've used them at work for autonomous transactions outside of plpgsql.
Not sure of how well they would or wouldn't work inside plpgsql.