[EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Jim C. Nasby") writes: > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 11:23:55AM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote: >> Tom Lane wrote: >> > "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > > AFAIK they're not using subtransactions at all, but I'll check. >> > >> > Well, yeah, they are ... else you'd never have seen this failure. >> >> Maybe it's in plpgsql EXCEPTION clauses. > > Err, I forgot they're using Slony, which is probably using savepoints > and/or exceptions.
Slony-I does use exceptions in pretty conventional ways; it does *not* make any use of subtransactions, because it needs to run on PG 7.3 and 7.4 that do not support subtransactions. -- (format nil "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" "cbbrowne" "acm.org") http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/linuxxian.html "I can't believe my room doesn't have Ethernet! Why wasn't it wired when the house was built?" "The house was built in 1576." -- Alex Kamilewicz on the Oxford breed of `conference American.' ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org