On 5/21/06, Gurjeet Singh <singh.gurjeet@gmail.com> wrote:
> One more question comes to mind. IIRC, Oracle doesn't need you to
> rollback the whole transaction if one statement fails (like constarint
> violation in this case)!!! Does the standard dictate that an error in
> a transaction should force a rollback?
>
> I could be wrong about Oracle; I do not have an Oracle
> installation to check, can somebody verify this?
>
> Regards,
> Gurjeet.
>

that is only possible if you use savepoints and we have them in postgres too.
more than that it's beyond spec i think...

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