Re: A transaction in transaction? Possible?

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:45:19AM -0800, Riccardo G. Facchini wrote:

> Sorry, but I understand that your example is not really about nested
> transactions, but about sequential transactions.

Here's a more elaborate example.  If this doesn't demonstrate the
capability you're looking for, then please provide an example of
what you'd like to do and describe the desired behavior.

CREATE TABLE person (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT NOT NULL);

BEGIN;   INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('Alice');
   SAVEPOINT s1;       INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('Bob');
SAVEPOINT s2;    INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('Charles');
    SAVEPOINT s3;        INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('David');    ROLLBACK TO s3;
    INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('Edward');ROLLBACK TO s2;
       INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('Frank');   RELEASE s1;
   INSERT INTO person (name) VALUES ('George');
COMMIT;

SELECT * FROM person;id |  name  
----+-------- 1 | Alice 2 | Bob 6 | Frank 7 | George

If you change "ROLLBACK TO s2" to "RELEASE s2" then you get this:
id |  name   
----+--------- 1 | Alice 2 | Bob 3 | Charles 5 | Edward 6 | Frank 7 | George

If you change "RELEASE s1" to "ROLLBACK TO s1" then you get this:
id |  name  
----+-------- 1 | Alice 7 | George

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Michael Fuhr
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