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Explicit Subtransactions in PL/Tcl</h2></div></div></div><a id="id-1.8.9.13.2" class="indexterm"></a><p> + Recovering from errors caused by database access as described in + <a class="xref" href="pltcl-error-handling.html" title="44.8. Error Handling in PL/Tcl">Section 44.8</a> can lead to an undesirable + situation where some operations succeed before one of them fails, + and after recovering from that error the data is left in an + inconsistent state. PL/Tcl offers a solution to this problem in + the form of explicit subtransactions. + </p><p> + Consider a function that implements a transfer between two accounts: +</p><pre class="programlisting"> +CREATE FUNCTION transfer_funds() RETURNS void AS $$ + if [catch { + spi_exec "UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance - 100 WHERE account_name = 'joe'" + spi_exec "UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance + 100 WHERE account_name = 'mary'" + } errormsg] { + set result [format "error transferring funds: %s" $errormsg] + } else { + set result "funds transferred successfully" + } + spi_exec "INSERT INTO operations (result) VALUES ('[quote $result]')" +$$ LANGUAGE pltcl; +</pre><p> + If the second <code class="command">UPDATE</code> statement results in an + exception being raised, this function will log the failure, but + the result of the first <code class="command">UPDATE</code> will + nevertheless be committed. In other words, the funds will be + withdrawn from Joe's account, but will not be transferred to + Mary's account. This happens because each <code class="function">spi_exec</code> + is a separate subtransaction, and only one of those subtransactions + got rolled back. + </p><p> + To handle such cases, you can wrap multiple database operations in an + explicit subtransaction, which will succeed or roll back as a whole. + PL/Tcl provides a <code class="function">subtransaction</code> command to manage + this. We can rewrite our function as: +</p><pre class="programlisting"> +CREATE FUNCTION transfer_funds2() RETURNS void AS $$ + if [catch { + subtransaction { + spi_exec "UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance - 100 WHERE account_name = 'joe'" + spi_exec "UPDATE accounts SET balance = balance + 100 WHERE account_name = 'mary'" + } + } errormsg] { + set result [format "error transferring funds: %s" $errormsg] + } else { + set result "funds transferred successfully" + } + spi_exec "INSERT INTO operations (result) VALUES ('[quote $result]')" +$$ LANGUAGE pltcl; +</pre><p> + Note that use of <code class="function">catch</code> is still required for this + purpose. Otherwise the error would propagate to the top level of the + function, preventing the desired insertion into + the <code class="structname">operations</code> table. + The <code class="function">subtransaction</code> command does not trap errors, it + only assures that all database operations executed inside its scope will + be rolled back together when an error is reported. + </p><p> + A rollback of an explicit subtransaction occurs on any error reported + by the contained Tcl code, not only errors originating from database + access. Thus a regular Tcl exception raised inside + a <code class="function">subtransaction</code> command will also cause the + subtransaction to be rolled back. 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