Re: bug w/ cursors and savepoints - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: bug w/ cursors and savepoints
Date
Msg-id 20050127233154.GD27963@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: bug w/ cursors and savepoints  (Oliver Jowett <oliver@opencloud.com>)
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On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:27:05PM +1300, Oliver Jowett wrote:
> Oliver Jowett wrote:
> >Having the close fail 
> >because of an intervening savepoint rollback isn't great -- the error 
> >will cause an unexpected failure of the current transaction.
> 
> Never mind -- I just reread the protocol docs, and it's safe to close a 
> nonexistant portal. Did this previously issue a warning, or something 
> similar? I'm sure I had seen problems in this area in the past..

Not sure ... however I remember somebody complained because the SQL
level interface differed from the protocol level one on this point.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
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