On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 9:55 PM, dandl <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > A plandl (language handler for Andl) function is called as follows: > > BEGIN; > SELECT plandl_compile($1); // argument is Andl code > COMMIT; > > Inside: > >>SPI_exec("BEGIN",...) returns error SPI_ERROR_TRANSACTION. As expected. >>SPI_exec("SAVEPOINT xyz",...) returns error SPI_ERROR_TRANSACTION. Not > expected. The docs say that this is expected: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/spi-spi-execute.html SPI_ERROR_TRANSACTION if a transaction manipulation command was attempted (BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK, SAVEPOINT, PREPARE TRANSACTION, COMMIT PREPARED, ROLLBACK PREPARED, or any variant thereof) > Is it not possible to set a SAVEPOINT inside a function? Or am I missing > something? A function using a given procedural language is itself running a transaction, so you cannot use DefineSavepoint directly. Have a look at src/backend/access/transam/README, particularly Subtransaction Handling", instead for more details regarding the routines that can be used for sub-transaction handling in prodedural languages. What I think you are looking for is BeginInternalSubTransaction(), ReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() and RollbackAndReleaseCurrentSubTransaction() to be able to handle exceptions. -- Michael -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general