Re: ...Roll Back issue in PGSQL..

On Friday 20 June 2008 12:19:03 Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:10 +0530, Deepak wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am trying to create a TRIGGER function,that populates values to
> > another table upon inserting a value into a table. The issue is,if
> > there is a exception(in Table 2) everything gets rolled back including
> > Table1.I dont want this to happen.i want the value of table1 to stay.
> > I tried "try....except" and introduced SAVEPOINT.But resulted in
> > runtime error.
> >
> > Can anyone please help me out
>
> The function executed by the trigger will be executed as a single
> transaction. If any part fails, they all fail.
>

Well, wrapping the bits of table2 in a begin....exception block would allow 
him to do what he wants. 

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Robert Treat
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