Re: BEGIN inside transaction should be an error - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: BEGIN inside transaction should be an error
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Msg-id 20060511200711.GN99570@pervasive.com
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In response to Re: BEGIN inside transaction should be an error  (Tommi Maekitalo <t.maekitalo@epgmbh.de>)
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On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 08:05:57AM +0200, Tommi Maekitalo wrote:
> I'd vote for breaking broken applications and leave the database-administrator 
> reactivate this currently broken behavior of postgresql via GUC.

+1...

As for whether this should or shouldn't abort the current transaction,
I'd argue that it should. Otherwise it's likely that your first commit
is actually bogus, which means you just hosed yourself.
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