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From: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
To: Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
Cc: Kevin Stephenson <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Nested Stored Procedures - ERROR: invalid transaction termination 2D000
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:59:10 -0400
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Christophe Pettus <[email protected]> writes:
> A procedure cannot issue top-level transaction control statements from within an exception block, and attempting to do so raises the error you saw.  This includes procedures that are called from within an exception block.

Yeah.  Postgres doesn't have autonomous transactions (not yet anyway),
and you can't fake them like that.

A way that does work, I believe, is to set up a second session with
dblink[1] and use that to issue the autonomous transaction.  Ugly
and inefficient for sure, but if you've gotta have it...

			regards, tom lane

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/dblink.html

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