Re: [HACKERS] ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK
Date
Msg-id 6763.1420039248@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
> On 12/30/2014 09:20 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In one light this is certainly a bug fix, but in another it's just
>> definitional instability.
>>
>> If we'd gotten a field bug report we might well have chosen to back-patch,
>> though, and perhaps your client's complaint counts as that.

> I got caught by this with ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK on 9.3 just this afternoon
> before remembering this thread. So there's a field report :-)

> +0.75 for backpatching (It's hard to imagine someone relying on the bad
> behaviour, but you never know).

It seems like there's a consensus in favor of back-patching this change,
so I'll go ahead and do that.

            regards, tom lane


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