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Transaction control in PL procedures
In each of the supplied procedural languages (PL/pgSQL, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Tcl), add language-specific commit and rollback functions/commands to control transactions in procedures in that language. Add similar underlying functions to SPI. Some additional cleanup so that transaction commit or abort doesn't blow away data structures still used by the procedure call. Add execution context tracking to CALL and DO statements so that transaction control commands can only be issued in top-level procedure and block calls, not function calls or other procedure or block calls. - SPI Add a new function SPI_connect_ext() that is like SPI_connect() but allows passing option flags. The only option flag right now is SPI_OPT_NONATOMIC. A nonatomic SPI connection can execute transaction control commands, otherwise it's not allowed. This is meant to be passed down from CALL and DO statements which themselves know in which context they are called. A nonatomic SPI connection uses different memory management. A normal SPI connection allocates its memory in TopTransactionContext. For nonatomic connections we use PortalContext instead. As the comment in SPI_connect_ext() (previously SPI_connect()) indicates, one could potentially use PortalContext in all cases, but it seems safest to leave the existing uses alone, because this stuff is complicated enough already. SPI also gets new functions SPI_start_transaction(), SPI_commit(), and SPI_rollback(), which can be used by PLs to implement their transaction control logic. - portalmem.c Some adjustments were made in the code that cleans up portals at transaction abort. The portal code could already handle a command *committing* a transaction and continuing (e.g., VACUUM), but it was not quite prepared for a command *aborting* a transaction and continuing. In AtAbort_Portals(), remove the code that marks an active portal as failed. As the comment there already predicted, this doesn't work if the running command wants to keep running after transaction abort. And it's actually not necessary, because pquery.c is careful to run all portal code in a PG_TRY block and explicitly runs MarkPortalFailed() if there is an exception. So the code in AtAbort_Portals() is never used anyway. In AtAbort_Portals() and AtCleanup_Portals(), we need to be careful not to clean up active portals too much. This mirrors similar code in PreCommit_Portals(). - PL/Perl Gets new functions spi_commit() and spi_rollback() - PL/pgSQL Gets new commands COMMIT and ROLLBACK. Update the PL/SQL porting example in the documentation to reflect that transactions are now possible in procedures. - PL/Python Gets new functions plpy.commit and plpy.rollback. - PL/Tcl Gets new commands commit and rollback. Reviewed-by: Andrew Dunstan <andrew.dunstan@2ndquadrant.com>
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‎doc/src/sgml/plperl.sgml

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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>
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<literal><function>spi_commit()</function></literal>
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<indexterm>
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<primary>spi_commit</primary>
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<secondary>in PL/Perl</secondary>
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</indexterm>
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</term>
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<term>
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<literal><function>spi_rollback()</function></literal>
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<indexterm>
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<primary>spi_rollback</primary>
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<secondary>in PL/Perl</secondary>
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</indexterm>
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</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>
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Commit or roll back the current transaction. This can only be called
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in a procedure or anonymous code block (<command>DO</command> command)
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called from the top level. (Note that it is not possible to run the
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SQL commands <command>COMMIT</command> or <command>ROLLBACK</command>
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via <function>spi_exec_query</function> or similar. It has to be done
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using these functions.) After a transaction is ended, a new
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transaction is automatically started, so there is no separate function
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for that.
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</para>
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<para>
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Here is an example:
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<programlisting>
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CREATE PROCEDURE transaction_test1()
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LANGUAGE plperl
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AS $$
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foreach my $i (0..9) {
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spi_exec_query("INSERT INTO test1 (a) VALUES ($i)");
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if ($i % 2 == 0) {
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spi_commit();
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} else {
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spi_rollback();
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}
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}
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$$;
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CALL transaction_test1();
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>
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Transactions cannot be ended when a cursor created by
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<function>spi_query</function> is open.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<sect1 id="plpgsql-transactions">
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<title>Transaction Management</title>
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<para>
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In procedures invoked by the <command>CALL</command> command from the top
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level as well as in anonymous code blocks (<command>DO</command> command)
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called from the top level, it is possible to end transactions using the
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commands <command>COMMIT</command> and <command>ROLLBACK</command>. A new
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transaction is started automatically after a transaction is ended using
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these commands, so there is no separate <command>START
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TRANSACTION</command> command. (Note that <command>BEGIN</command> and
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<command>END</command> have different meanings in PL/pgSQL.)
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</para>
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<para>
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Here is a simple example:
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<programlisting>
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CREATE PROCEDURE transaction_test1()
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LANGUAGE plpgsql
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AS $$
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BEGIN
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FOR i IN 0..9 LOOP
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INSERT INTO test1 (a) VALUES (i);
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IF i % 2 = 0 THEN
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COMMIT;
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ELSE
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ROLLBACK;
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END IF;
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END LOOP;
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END
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$$;
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CALL transaction_test1();
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</programlisting>
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</para>
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<para>
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A transaction cannot be ended inside a loop over a query result, nor
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</para>
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CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE cs_create_job(v_job_id IN INTEGER) IS
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a_running_job_count INTEGER;
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PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION; -- <co id="co.plpgsql-porting-pragma"/>
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LOCK TABLE cs_jobs IN EXCLUSIVE MODE;
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COMMIT; -- free lock
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raise_application_error(-20000,
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functions returning <type>void</type>. This procedure in
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CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE cs_create_job(v_job_id integer) AS $$
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