On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 02:40:51AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > Someone at Fujitsu pointed out the following bug in 8.0:
> > begin;
> > savepoint x;
> > create table abc (a int);
> > insert into abc values (5);
> > declare foo cursor for select * from abc;
> > rollback to x;
> > fetch from foo; -- hits an Assert()
>
> Offhand I'd say this should draw a "no such cursor as foo" error.
> I'm too tired to look into why foo still exists after the rollback...
At this point, gdb says that the portal is in PORTAL_READY state. The
code says to keep it open and reassign it to the parent subxact. I
don't remember what the rationale for this was ... I'll review the
discussion about this.
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"La rebeldía es la virtud original del hombre" (Arthur Schopenhauer)
