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By default, any error occurring in a <application>PL/pgSQL</>
- function aborts execution of the function, and indeed of the
- surrounding transaction as well. You can trap errors and recover
+ function aborts execution of the function and the
+ surrounding transaction. You can trap errors and recover
from them by using a <command>BEGIN</> block with an
<literal>EXCEPTION</> clause. The syntax is an extension of the
normal syntax for a <command>BEGIN</> block: