Medhavi Mahansaria wrote: > I am writing a porting a procedure running in oracle to a PL/pgSQL function. > > I need to use commit and rollback in my function. > > I have read that usage of commit and rollback is not possible in PL/pgSQL, > however savepoints can be > used. > > even when i use savepoints and rollback to a savepoint in the exception block > I am getting the > following error > > ERROR: cannot begin/end transactions in PL/pgSQL > HINT: Use a BEGIN block with an EXCEPTION clause instead.
Instead of explicitly using ROLLBACK, you have to code like this: BEGIN INSERT ... -- may cause an error EXCEPTION WHEN OTHERS THEN ... END If you get into the exception block, PL/pgSQL will implicitly have rolled back everything that happened between BEGIN and EXCEPTION. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
