Re: AW: [GENERAL] Re: [HACKERS] TRANSACTIONS

>Here is my example:
>
>package Apache::Hits;
>
>use strict;
>use Apache::Constants qw(:common);
>
>my ($sth_lock, $sth_upd, $sth_ins );
>
>
>sub handler {
>  my $r = shift;
>  if ( $r->args() =~ /msg_id=(\d+)/o ) {
>    $HTML::Mason::Commands::dbs ||= My::DB->new(1);
>    my $dbh = $HTML::Mason::Commands::dbs->{dbh};
>    $sth_lock ||= $dbh->prepare("LOCK TABLE hits IN SHARE ROW EXCLUSIVE MODE");
>    $sth_upd  ||= $dbh->prepare("UPDATE hits SET count=count+1,last_access=now() WHERE msg_id=?");
>    $sth_ins  ||= $dbh->prepare("INSERT INTO hits (msg_id,count) VALUES (?, 1)");
>    $dbh->{AutoCommit} = 0;
>    my $success = 1;
>    $success &&= $sth_lock->execute();
>    $success &&= $sth_upd->execute( $1 );
>    $success &&= $sth_ins->execute( $1 ) if ( $success eq '0E0');
>    my $result = ($success ? $dbh->commit : $dbh->rollback);
>    unless ( $result ) {
>        $r->log_error("Unable to process transaction: ". $dbh->errstr ."\n");
>    }
>  }
>  return OK;
>}
>
>1;
>__END__

Maybe I'm missing something - I don't use the Apache module, nor the
mason module, so it's difficult for me to decode this.  But I looks to
me like this commits or rolls back one statement at a time. 

What I want to be able to do is run a multi-statement transaction, and
for each statement in the transaction try to fix it if an error is
generated.  If I cannot fix it, I want to roll back all of the
previous statements in the transaction.  If I can fix it, I want to
clear the error status and continue on to the next statement in the
transaction.

Does your counter example do this in some way that I am not seeing?

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