Re: incorrect exit code from psql with single transaction + violation of deferred FK constraint

Dominic, sorry you didn't get any reply to your bug report from October,
but it was picked up by Robert Haas in January:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2010-01/msg00478.php

and is now listed as an outstanding 9.0 bug:

http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_9.0_Open_Items

What your bug report illustrates is that the BEGIN/COMMIT commands that
are used for psql -1 are not properly checking for return values. In
fact we are not even properly clearing their libpq result structures.
The "deferrable initially deferred" clause is causing the file to fail
on the commit, and lacking proper error checking, you are getting a zero
return value from psql.

The attached patch checks for the proper return from BEGIN/COMMIT, and
properly frees the libpq structures. In testing, this does return 3 as
you expected.

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Dominic Bevacqua wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've noticed that executing a sql script such with psql with -1
> -vON_ERROR_STOP=on where the script causes a deferred foreign key
> constraint to be violated returns 0 rather than the expected 3. I have
> reproduced this in psql 8.4.1, 8.3.3 and 8.2.9, which does lead me to
> wonder whether it is expected behaviour. However...
>
> Sample code to reproduce:
>
> -- test.sql
> create table foo (id int primary key, foo_id int);
> alter table foo add constraint fk1 foreign key (foo_id) references
> foo(id) deferrable initially deferred;
> insert into foo select 1,2;
>
> for which:
>
> psql -1 -vON_ERROR_STOP=on -f test.sql
>
> returns 0 (but with message detailing the constraint violation)
>
> psql -vON_ERROR_STOP=on -f test.sql
>
> returns 3 (as expected).
>
> However, with the constraint immediate, i.e.
>
> -- test.sql
> create table foo (id int primary key, foo_id int);
> alter table foo add constraint fk1 foreign key (foo_id) references foo(id);
> insert into foo select 1,2;
>
> psql -1 -vON_ERROR_STOP=on -f test.sql
>
> and
>
> psql -vON_ERROR_STOP=on -f test.sql
>
> both return 3 (which is the expected behaviour on my reading of the docs).
>
> Also, interestingly, if I wrap the first script in begin; ... commit; I
> always get 3 returned.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dominic.
>
> Dominic Bevacqua
> Director
> BPM Logic Ltd.
> http://www.bpmlogic.com
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