Re: any way for a transaction to "see" inserts done earlier in the transaction?

The function does a select to see if the id number exists, and it fails.
NOT FOUND causes a RAISE EXCEPTION.

Susan

On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Susan Cassidy <
susan(dot)cassidy(at)decisionsciencescorp(dot)com> wrote:

> It is a fairly large and complex Perl program, so no, not really.
>
> I do an insert via a function, which returns the new id, then later I try
> to SELECT on that id, and it doesn't find it.
>
> Could it be because the insert is done inside a function?
>
> Susan
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Steven Schlansker <steven(at)likeness(dot)com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> >> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> >> Susan Cassidy <susan(dot)cassidy(at)decisionsciencescorp(dot)com> writes:
>> >> > Is there any way to let a transaction "see" the inserts that were
>> done
>> >> > earlier in the transaction?
>> >>
>> >> It works that way automatically, as long as you're talking about
>> separate
>> >> statements within one transaction.
>> >>
>> >> regards, tom lane
>>
>> > On Apr 16, 2014, at 4:53 PM, Susan Cassidy <
>> susan(dot)cassidy(at)decisionsciencescorp(dot)com> wrote:
>> > Well, it isn't working for me right now. It can't "see" a row that was
>> inserted earlier in the transaction. It is a new primary key, and when I
>> SELECT it, it isn't found.
>> >
>>
>> Can you share the code that does not work with us? Preferably as a small
>> self-contained example.
>>
>>
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