Re: Rollback on Error - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Rollback on Error
Date
Msg-id 200409141156.42492.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Rollback on Error  ("Michael Paesold" <mpaesold@gmx.at>)
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Michael Paesold wrote:
> I though the postgres behaviour of rolling back the whole transaction
> was standard?

No.

> If that is not the case, I don't understand why core
> seems to be against a mode (GUC), where an implicit savepoint is
> generated before each statement so that "rollback of the last
> statement" would be possible.

Because it's dangerous in noninteractive mode.  When you send a
transaction to the server, you don't want some statements be left out.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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