Re: can you do rollback in a trigger function?

On 10/15/2013 01:38 PM, Quang Thoi wrote:

> I want to roll back deletion if there is a reference (FK) in another
> table.
>
> Can I explicitly call a rollback inside a function?

No. Transactions are controlled outside the body of any executing
function. You do have have a couple other options, though. If you can't
use a basic foreign key which does this automatically, you can have your
trigger function return NULL. From the documentation:

"Row-level triggers fired BEFORE can return null to signal the trigger
manager to skip the rest of the operation for this row (i.e., subsequent
triggers are not fired, and the INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE does not occur for
this row)"

You could also raise an explicit error so the user sees something. To
fake a foreign key violation, you'd do:

RAISE EXCEPTION foreign_key_violation;

So you don't need a rollback anyway.

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