Bryn Llewellyn <b...@yugabyte.com> writes:
> x...@thebuild.com wrote:
>> You can commit in a loop, but not in BEGIN / END block that has an exception
>> handler: that creates a subtransaction for the duration of the BEGIN / END.
> This surprised me when I first started to use PG (after all those years
> with ORCL).
Really? BEGIN with an exception block is a subtransaction because it's
defined to roll back to the database state as of the start of the block
if an exception occurs. COMMIT in the middle fundamentally conflicts
with that, I should think. Does Oracle interpret that differently?
regards, tom lane
