Re: Suggestion: Issue warning when calling SET TRANSACTION outside transaction block - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

On 2013-11-19 13:05:01 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>     SAVEPOINT

>     test=> ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT asdf;
>     ERROR:  ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT can only be used in transaction blocks
> 
> Notice that they do _not_ check their arguments;  they just throw
> errors.  With this patch they issue warnings and evaluate their
> arguments:

>     test=> ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT asdf;
>     WARNING:  ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT can only be used in transaction blocks
>     ROLLBACK
>     
> However, SAVEPOINT/ROLLBACK throw weird errors when they are evaluated
> outside a multi-statement transaction, so their arguments are not
> evaluated.  This might be why they were originally marked as errors.

Why change the historical behaviour for savepoints?

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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