Re: Does error within transaction imply restarting it?

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> Haroldo Stenger writes:
>
> > I seems that other DBMSs, don't care about erroneous statements within
> > a transaction. Now, I have several paths to follow: 1) Hacking the
> > backend ;-)
>
> If you're really brave you can try this change in
> backend/tcop/postgres.c:
>
> if (sigsetjmp(Warn_restart, 1) != 0)
> {
> time(&tim);
>
> if (Verbose)
> TPRINTF(TRACE_VERBOSE, "AbortCurrentTransaction");
>
> - AbortCurrentTransaction();
> InError = false;
> if (ExitAfterAbort)
> {
> ProcReleaseLocks(); /* Just to be sure... */
> proc_exit(0);
> }
> }
>
> Absolutely no guarantee, there's probably more to it. Hmm, I wonder, maybe
> not.
>
> > How can I motivate key developers to make their way into an action
> > plan?
>
> Becoming one yourself or throwing large amounts of cash at the existing
> ones. :) Trying the above and tracing down any arising problems might be a
> start though.

Seems this would be an interesting SET option.

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