Re: php with postgres - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Thomas Swan
Subject Re: php with postgres
Date
Msg-id 3F1D6E4E.5010604@idigx.com
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In response to Re: php with postgres  ("scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>)
Responses Re: php with postgres  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On 7/22/2003 11:18 AM, scott.marlowe wrote:

>On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>Jan Wieck wrote:
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>>>Bruce Momjian wrote:
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>>>>Marcus B?rger wrote:
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>>>>>BM> Marcus, would you check if PHP is using RESET ALL when passing
>>>>>BM> persistent connection to new clients?  We added that capability a few
>>>>>BM> releases ago, specifically for PHP persistent connections, but I don't
>>>>>BM> think that ever got into the PHP code.
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>>>>>Unfortunately we don't do so yet. Do i need to check for errors or can i do it
>>>>>unconditionally on conenction start? And i'd need to know how to check if it
>>>>>is available (like starting with which version).
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>>>>It first appeared in PostgreSQL version 7.2.  It doesn't generate any
>>>>failures.  It just resets all SET settting to their defaults, in case
>>>>the previous client modified them.
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>>>It does generate the usual error if the current transaction block is in 
>>>ABORT state. So the correct querystring to send would be something like
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>>>     "ROLLBACK; RESET ALL"
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>>Oh, I remember that now as part of the persistent connection code.  As I
>>remember, we told them to do BEGIN;COMMIT; to clear any open transaction
>>state passed to the new client.  Is that in there?  If not, it has to be
>>added too.  ROLLBACK will generate an error if you are not in a
>>transaction, so it would fill the logs with errors.
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>Won't that break when we have nested transactions implemented?  i.e. 
>begin;commit; would just open a sub transaction and have no effect on the 
>outer transaction...
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I was just about to mention that one.  Perhaps a ROLLBACK ALL would be
of benefit to allow a clean state and start to work again.

Doesn't autocommit behavior affect this as well?

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