Sriram Dandapani wrote:
> This is the scenario:
>
>
>
> Controller function fncCtrl calls function A, function B and function C
> in that order.
>
> Function A needs a savepoint to prevent errors from undoing work that
> needs to be committed regardless of errors in function B or C
>
> Is there a way to define a generic savepoint that any errors in B or C
> will rollback to.
What you can do is to have fncCtrl like this:
BEGIN
perform A();
BEGIN
perform B();
perform C();
EXCEPTION WHEN ...
-- here, either B or C failed
END
END
If B or C fail, the changes made by A will persist.
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