Thread: Status of interactive psql's error handling?

Status of interactive psql's error handling?

From
Greg Stark
Date:
What's the current status on psql handling typos and interrupts more usefully
by automatically encapsulating every statement in a savepoint? I'm just
curious whether it's already in for 8.1 or if it got stalled.

I ask because I just got bit again by a typo where I accidently deleted the
wrong data and would dearly love to be able to start using autocommit=off so I
can double check my ad-hoc database work before committing. I adopted this
when I was working with Oracle and it saved my life more times than I can
remember. But it's really not feasible if every typo requires starting from
scratch.

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greg

Re: Status of interactive psql's error handling?

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Greg Stark wrote:
>
> What's the current status on psql handling typos and interrupts more usefully
> by automatically encapsulating every statement in a savepoint? I'm just
> curious whether it's already in for 8.1 or if it got stalled.
>
> I ask because I just got bit again by a typo where I accidently deleted the
> wrong data and would dearly love to be able to start using autocommit=off so I
> can double check my ad-hoc database work before committing. I adopted this
> when I was working with Oracle and it saved my life more times than I can
> remember. But it's really not feasible if every typo requires starting from
> scratch.

psql in 8.1 will have:

    \set ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK interactive

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