At 11:32 AM 2/22/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>I see no way that allowing the transaction to commit after an overflow
>can be called consistent with the spec.
You are absolutely right. The whole point is that either a) everything
commits or b) nothing commits.
Having some kinds of exceptions allow a partial commit while other
exceptions rollback the transaction seems like a very error-prone
programming environment to me.
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