rollback in function

Hi

2015-02-19 21:42 GMT+01:00 Juan Pablo L. <jpablolorenzetti@hotmail.com>:

Hello, i have created a function (in C) that receives an array that
contains tuples of ID's and values.

The function is to execute updates on each ID assigning the value, but if
one of these operation fails (does not meet certain criteria)
inside the function i would like to rollback and leave everything
untouched, in case other ID;s were already updated previously,
and come back to the caller and inform about it.

I have read all over that it is not posible to do rollback inside a
function because each function is executed inside a transaction
so inside the function you dont have control over BEGIN/ROLLBACK, but i m
sure there is a way to do this, can anyone please give me a hint
how this is accomplished ? thank you!!!

There are two possibilities

a) simple way - raise a exception - it is usual way in Postgres - when you
diagnose any problem, then raise exception. After exception only rollback
is allowed.

b) start subtransaction, process your work and on the end do commit or
rollback.

In Postgres you can start or commit only transactions, that you are started
explicitly.

Subtransaction is started via BeginInternalSubTransaction function - you
can find few examples in postgres source code - probably most simple is in
interpret plpgsql pl_exec.c

Regards

Pavel