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From: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
To: Gus Spier <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Attempting to delete excess rows from table with BATCH DELETE
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:39:03 -0700
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On Tuesday, January 27, 2026, Gus Spier <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> I write a procedure to accomplish all this work but it persists in
> returning a error to the effect that a COMMIT is not valid in a block
> tht tries to DELETE data.
>

Haven’t tested to be sure but this doesn’t seem like a community edition
limitation. I don’t see any mention of this here at least:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/xproc.html

You’d have to move the logic to a proper client application that executes
top-level commands.

David J.


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