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From: Hannu Krosing <hannu@trust.ee>
To: Michael Meskes <meskes@postgreSQL.org>
Cc: Peter Garner <peter_garner@yahoo.com>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@hub.org
Subject: Re: [INTERFACES] Some needed features in postgresql
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 09:35:34 +0300
Message-ID: <372D43B6.B522067B@trust.ee> (raw)
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Michael Meskes wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 04:37:24PM -0700, Peter Garner wrote:
> > 2.  Is there any work being done on the fact that
> > transactions are aborted when an error occurs?  It
> > really lessens the usefulness of the product when,
> > after adding 20,000 records, the transaction aborts
> > because the 20,001th record is a dup key! :-)
> 
> But this is exactly what a transaction is supposed to do. You should only
> make those commands inside one transaction that logically belong to each
> other or in other words, that you consider one action.

But _nested_ transactions would still be nice .

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Hannu



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