Re: Transaction

From: Doug McNaught <doug(at)wireboard(dot)com>
To: "Mihai Gheorghiu" <tanethq(at)earthlink(dot)net>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Transaction
Date: 2001-09-17 21:01:46
Message-ID: m3lmjdsf9h.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org
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"Mihai Gheorghiu" <tanethq(at)earthlink(dot)net> writes:

> An event triggers a rule / trigger.
> Does this (event + rule/trigger) behave as a transaction, or is it necessary
> to wrap it into BEGIN COMMIT? If yes, BEGIN should be before or after the
> event (in the rule/trigger)?

It is always inside a transaction, since every SQL statement is a
transaction (unless of course you use BEGIN/COMMIT explicitly). So
"event + trigger" will succeed or fail atomically.

-Doug
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