I'm resending a mail from June:
https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/87sh5doya9.fsf%40news-spur.riddles.org.uk#83c3d1a183217204939252d56804f247
This is maybe a trivial change in ERROR string which maybe worth changing.
On PG10:
|[pryzbyj@database ~]$ psql postgres -c 'DROP DATABASE x; CREATE DATABASE x';
|ERROR: DROP DATABASE cannot be executed from a function or multi-command string
On PG11.1:
|[pryzbyj@telsasoft2015 server]$ psql postgres -c 'DROP DATABASE x; CREATE DATABASE x';
|ERROR: DROP DATABASE cannot run inside a transaction block
I spent at least a few minutes trying to do things like: psql -c 'begin;commit;create;drop'
..before figuring it out due to misleading error message, despite having
written this earlier message.
On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 04:06:37PM -0500, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> in pg10:
>
> ts=# begin;VACUUM FULL pg_toast.pg_toast_2619;
> BEGIN
> ERROR: 25001: VACUUM cannot run inside a transaction block
> LOCATION: PreventTransactionChain, xact.c:3167
> => sounds fine
>
> $ psql postgres -c 'SELECT 1; VACUUM pg_statistic'
> ERROR: VACUUM cannot be executed from a function or multi-command string
> => sounds fine
>
> In pg11b1:
>
> pryzbyj=# begin;VACUUM FULL pg_toast.pg_toast_2619;
> BEGIN
> ERROR: 25001: VACUUM cannot run inside a transaction block
> LOCATION: PreventInTransactionBlock, xact.c:3163
> => sounds fine
>
> [pryzbyj@dev ~]$ psql -c 'SELECT 1; VACUUM pg_statistic'
> ERROR: VACUUM cannot run inside a transaction block
> => Error message seems off??
>
> I couldn't figure out how to \set VERBOSITY verbose inside a psql command (??),
> but strace shows for v10:
> SERROR\0VERROR\0C25001\0MVACUUM cannot be executed from a function or multi-command
string\0Fxact.c\0L3187\0RPreventTransactionChain
>
> And for v11:
> SERROR\0VERROR\0C25001\0MVACUUM cannot run inside a transaction block\0Fxact.c\0L3163\0RPreventInTransactionBlock
>
> Function renamed by commit 04700b685f31508036456bea4d92533e5ceee9d6.
>
> So behavior change maybe caused by 6eb52da3948dc8bc7c8a61cbacac14823b670c58 ?
>
> Justin