>
> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Herouth Maoz wrote:
>
> Your example is very exhaustive Herouth. I tried it with SOLID and in fact
> it leaves SOLID database inconsistent.
>
> I see that PostgreSQL BEGIN/END statements are slight different from SQL
> transactions that begins with a implicit begin transaction (no BEGIN command)
> and ends with a ROLLBACK or COMMIT statement.
>
> Until now I thought that END was equal to COMMIT but in the case of:
> NOTICE: (transaction aborted): queries ignored until END
> *ABORT STATE*
> in this case END stands for ROLLBACK/ABORT I think it isn't enough clear.
> (I thought all reference to END were changed to COMMIT).
> PostgreSQL don't say to the user that all his work will be lost even if he do
> COMMIT.
>
> Maybe the following warn is more clear:
> NOTICE: (transaction aborted): queries ignored until COMMIT/ROLLBAK
> WARN: all changes will be lost even if you use COMMIT.
I have changed the text to read:
"all queries ignored until end of transaction block");
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