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Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:21:51 -0700
From: Dennis Sacks <dennis@illusions.com>
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Subject: commit inside plpgsql function
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Hi,

I am converting oracle stored procedures to plpgsql. There are several 
of the oracle procedures where a parameter vCommit is passed into the 
procedure and:

if vCommit = 1
    then
        commit;
        do_something_commit(vdate);
    else
        do_something(vdate);
    end if;

does this make sense in plpgsql? Does it make sense to do a commit in 
plpgsql?

Thanks,

Dennis