Re: Transaction Questions

Hi Tom!

    Thanks for the quick response. However, the ROLLBACK that you see occurred
because I ended the transaction using END; and not because I explicitly asked
for a ROLLBACK.

On Friday 24 February 2006 11:14, Tom Lane wrote:
> Richard Kut <rkut@intelerad.com> writes:
> > and that works as expected. However, if I get an error within the
> > transaction anywhere after the SAVEPOINT command, then the entire
> > transaction fails, and any changes made prior to the SAVEPOINT are rolled
> > back.
>
> Only because you deliberately told the system to roll back the entire
> transaction.  You want to use ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT instead.
>
>             regards, tom lane

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Regards,

Richard Kut
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