Re: Sketch of extending error handling for subtransactions

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Sketch of extending error handling for subtransactions
Date: 2004-07-25 01:20:43
Message-ID: 200407250120.i6P1KhQ08278@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Yes. This is an integral part of finishing nested transactions.
>
> > Oh, is this exceptions in functions or the ability to allow functions to
> > keep executing after an SQL error?
>
> Those are the same thing, aren't they? But yes, that's the point here.

So it allows functions to use subtransactions and recover from errors.
I thought that was more than we could do for 7.5 and in fact the release
notes now saw that will be done in a future release.

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