Re: nested transactions

Stored procedures are always within a single block. They inherit whatever
transaction from the caller. If there is an error, it rollbacks your
function (and the callers too IIRC).

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:11:47PM +0000, James Gregory wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am writing a stored procedure where it is absolutely necessary that it
> be executed within a single transaction block. Now, postgres doesn't
> support nested transactions, and that's ok, it's not really what I want.
> I want to know how to test whether or not a piece of sql that is
> executing is doing so inside a transaction. If it is, I'll let it be,
> otherwise I want to set a flag to start one and commit at the end of the
> function.
>
> Is there a way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> James.
>
>
>
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