Re: Transactions within a function body

["Gurjeet Singh" <singh.gurjeet@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, in Oracle too SAVEPOINT and AUTONOMOUS transaction are different beasts.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Bob Henkel <bob.henkel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Coming from an Oracle background my understanding is they're one in the same.

 

 

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bob Henkel escribió:

> Have you looked at creating a function in perl and creating a new
> connection? Or using a dblink query which can create a new connection?
> These two methods work. I have used them to insert to a log table regardless
> of the parent transaction being commited or rolled back.

That's a different thing, "autonomous transactions".

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