On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
"David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: >> What we do have though is client-side support for appropriate behaviors. >> In psql, see the AUTOCOMMIT and ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK control variables.
> Not quite the same. I think what people probably want is for psql to > recognize it is in a transaction and before sending a command to the server > for processing to precede it by sending "SAVEPOINT random()". Then, before > returning the result of the command to the user issue either "RELEASE > SAVEPOINT" or "ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT" depending on whether the command > succeeded or failed. Then report the result to the user.
Which part of that isn't implemented by ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK?
