On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Merlin Moncure <mmonc...@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pete...@gmx.net> wrote:
>>> It would probably be more reasonable and feasible to have a setup where
>>> you can end a transaction in plpgsql but a new one would start right
>>> away.
>
>> ya, that's an idea.
>
> Yeah, that's a good thought.  Then we'd have a very well-defined
> collection of state that had to be preserved through such an operation,
> ie, the variable values and control state of the SP.  It also gets rid
> of the feeling that you ought not be in a transaction when you enter
> the SP.

hm, another neat thing about this is that it skirts the unfortunate
confusion between sql 'begin' and plpgsql 'begin'...

merlin

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