On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:02:44 -0400, Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In fact, I think we should mark ERROR as aborting the whole transaction >tree, and create a new level which would abort the innermost >subtransaction. We would then change whatever is appropiate to the new >elevel. Doing otherwise would leave us open to unexpected conditions >causing only subtrans abort, which could lead to unreliable behavior.
Why? Subtransaction commit propagates an error state to the parent transaction. And if a subtransaction is rolled back the parent can continue cleanly no matter what was the reason for the subtrans abort. Servus Manfred ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
