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

Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 21:42 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > 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.
> 
> It's still a misleading message; in those circumstances, how about
> returning "NO ACTION" instead?

Uh, it took a lot of discussion to agree on ROLLBACK.  It would take
even more discussion to add a new tag return value.

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