I found on http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/Computing/Online_Documentation/postgresql/plpgsql-porting.html that it is not poosible to use start or end a transaction in plpgsl.
I tried to create a plplsql-function on PostgreSQL 8.0 beta 3 I can comile
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION insert_many_commit( integer ) RETURNS void AS '
DECLARE
counter INTEGER := $1;
BEGIN
WHILE counter > 0 LOOP
INSERT INTO testtab (id, modification_date, description )
VALUES ( NEXTVAL(''seq_testtab''),now(), ''Eintrag von insert_many() '' ||
counter );
COMMIT;
counter := counter-1;
END LOOP;
RETURN;
END;
' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql';So I think it's possible to have COMMIT / ROLLBACK in PLPgSQL
But I can't execute this funktion this way: # select insert_many_commit(1000); ERROR: SPI_execute_plan failed executing query "COMMIT": SPI_ERROR_TRANSACTION
Is there an other way to execute tis function ? If the latter, is it poosible in other languages like PL/Python or PL/Perl ?
regards Michael Kleiser
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