Re: savepoint improvements

From: "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: savepoint improvements
Date: 2007-01-21 17:40:17
Message-ID: c2d9e70e0701210940l753e389cnb56fa92d09b4705e@mail.gmail.com
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On 1/21/07, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 15:12 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote:
>
> > The missing piece of the puzzle is the ability to recover a failed
> > transaction without issuing a full commit/rollback.
>
> Agreed.
>
> I'd like to see a TODO item to allow an *option* to be set to choose
> between these two transactional behaviours.
[...]
> - continue on error i.e. COMMIT can/might succeed - though there are
> still cases where it cannot, such as a serializable exception.
>

and what should be the behaviour of that? the same as rollback?

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Jaime Casanova

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