| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: My function run successfully with cursor, but can't change table |
| Date: | 2013-06-10 16:48:38 |
| Message-ID: | 20130610164837.GG15368@eldon.alvh.no-ip.org |
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Thomas Kellerer wrote:
> Kevin Grittner wrote on 10.06.2013 15:19:
> >It has nothing to do with the way you are using the cursor; your
> >problem is that you are causing an error by attempting to COMMIT
> >inside a function (which is not allowed). This rolls back the
> >subtransaction defined by the BEGIN/EXCEPTION block. You then
> >suppress any display of the error with the WHEN OTHERS block.
>
> I thought you could *never* use commit (or rollback) inside a function?
You cannot use transaction commands directly, but EXCEPTION blocks
use savepoints internally.
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