Re: Disruptive corruption of data during an update

From: Ennio-Sr <nasr(dot)laili(at)tin(dot)it>
To: pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Disruptive corruption of data during an update
Date: 2012-03-29 16:00:13
Message-ID: 20120329160013.GA29605@deby.ei.hnet
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* Steve T <steve(at)retsol(dot)co(dot)uk> [290312, 13:40]:
> On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 13:49 +0200, Ennio-Sr wrote:
>
> I cannot help with the recovery, but as a general rule I tend to place
> all updates/deletes within an explicit transaction. Obviously you can
> then rollback the transaction should the results not be as required.
>
> dev_reinsure=# begin;
> BEGIN
> dev_reinsure=# update address set addrLine1='N where recno=2';
> UPDATE 911
> dev_reinsure=# rollback;
> ROLLBACK
>

Thank you Steve, this seems to be a good practice which I must get
accustomed to use!
Regards,
ennio

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