Re: Nested transactions

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:41:54PM -0700, Bill Todd wrote:
> Does PostgreSQL support nested transactions as shown below?
>
> BEGIN;
> ...do some stuff...
> BEGIN;
> ...more stuff...
> COMMIT;
> COMMIT;

It depends what you want to have happen when the outer transaction
rolls back. If you want all the sub-commits to roll back, use
SAVEPOINTs. If you don't, you'll have to write something in an
untrusted PL that uses a separate database connection.

Cheers,
David.
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