Re: New SET/autocommit problem

From: Sean Chittenden <sean(at)chittenden(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: New SET/autocommit problem
Date: 2002-10-22 17:10:46
Message-ID: 20021022171046.GA87110@perrin.int.nxad.com
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> > WARNING: COMMIT: no transaction in progress
>
> > I've got tons of these warnings in my logs... is there a programmatic
> > way of determining if the current session is in a transaction?
>
> Not at present: you have to track it for yourself. One of the
> suggestions on the list for the next frontend/backend protocol revision
> (probably in 7.4) is to add a way for the backend to signal its
> transaction state: no transaction, in transaction, or in failed
> transaction seems like the set of possible states.

That would be fabulous because with autocommit set to off, the
complexity for tracking that in application is getting pretty
gnarly. -sc

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Sean Chittenden

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