SSC-FDM-RS0006

Called procedure contains usages of COMMIT/ROLLBACK, modifying the current transaction in child scopes is not supported in Snowflake

Description

In Redshift, it is allowed to use the statements COMMIT and ROLLBACK inside a procedure to make permanent or discard the changes on a transaction that was opened on an outer scope.

Snowflake works with the concept of scoped transactions, which treats each procedure call as a separate transaction, this limits the effects of the COMMIT and ROLLBACK statements to the scope of the procedure they are declared in.

The aforementioned functional difference will be warned with this FDM when calls to a procedure with COMMIT or ROLLBACK are detected by SnowConvert.

Code Example

Input Code:

IN -> Redshift_01.sql
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE inner_transaction_procedure(a int)
    LANGUAGE plpgsql
    AS $$
BEGIN
    INSERT INTO transaction_values_test values (a);
    ROLLBACK;
    INSERT INTO transaction_values_test values (a + 1);
END
$$;

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE outer_transaction_procedure(a int)
    LANGUAGE plpgsql
    AS $$
BEGIN
    -- This insert is also affected by the ROLLBACK in inner_transaction_procedure
    INSERT INTO transaction_values_test values (a);
    CALL inner_transaction_procedure(a + 3);
    COMMIT;
END
$$;

CALL outer_transaction_procedure(10);

Output Code:

OUT -> Redshift_01.sql
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE inner_transaction_procedure (a int)
RETURNS VARCHAR
    LANGUAGE SQL
    COMMENT = '{ "origin": "sf_sc", "name": "snowconvert", "version": {  "major": 0,  "minor": 0,  "patch": "0" }, "attributes": {  "component": "redshift",  "convertedOn": "03/03/2025",  "domain": "test" }}'
    AS $$
BEGIN
    BEGIN TRANSACTION;
    INSERT INTO transaction_values_test
    values (:a);
    ROLLBACK;
    BEGIN TRANSACTION;
    INSERT INTO transaction_values_test
    values (:a + 1);
    COMMIT;
END
$$;

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE outer_transaction_procedure (a int)
RETURNS VARCHAR
    LANGUAGE SQL
COMMENT = '{ "origin": "sf_sc", "name": "snowconvert", "version": {  "major": 0,  "minor": 0,  "patch": "0" }, "attributes": {  "component": "redshift",  "convertedOn": "03/03/2025",  "domain": "test" }}'
    AS $$
BEGIN
    BEGIN TRANSACTION;
    -- This insert is also affected by the ROLLBACK in inner_transaction_procedure
    INSERT INTO transaction_values_test
    values (:a);
    --** SSC-FDM-RS0006 - CALLED PROCEDURE CONTAINS USAGES OF COMMIT/ROLLBACK, MODIFYING THE CURRENT TRANSACTION IN CHILD SCOPES IS NOT SUPPORTED IN SNOWFLAKE **
    CALL inner_transaction_procedure(:a + 3);
    COMMIT;
END
$$;

CALL outer_transaction_procedure(10);

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