Re: 8.0b4: COMMIT outside of a transaction echoes ROLLBACK - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Ian Barwick wrote:
> just wondering:
> 
> test=> select version();
>                                          version
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  PostgreSQL 8.0.0beta4 on i686-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC)
> 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux)
> (1 row)
> 
> test=> begin;
> BEGIN
> test=> commit;
> COMMIT
> test=> commit;
> WARNING:  there is no transaction in progress
> ROLLBACK
> 
> Is there any reason ROLLBACK and not COMMIT is echoed here?

Because the transaction was not committed, but rather rolled back.

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