On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:41:54PM -0700, Bill Todd wrote: > Does PostgreSQL support nested transactions as shown below? > > BEGIN; > ...do some stuff... > BEGIN; > ...more stuff... > COMMIT; > COMMIT; It depends what you want to have happen when the outer transaction rolls back. If you want all the sub-commits to roll back, use SAVEPOINTs. If you don't, you'll have to write something in an untrusted PL that uses a separate database connection. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
