| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Mike Finn <mike(dot)finn(at)tacticalExecutive(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Unexpected *ABORT STATE* |
| Date: | 2001-07-31 20:31:27 |
| Message-ID: | 24722.996611487@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Mike Finn <mike(dot)finn(at)tacticalExecutive(dot)com> writes:
> My guess is that the underlying problem is that psql really doesn't
> know when it is in an interactive session or not.
No, the real problem is that we have only one mechanism for recovering
to a valid state after an error, and that is transaction abort.
Distinguishing statement abort from transaction abort will require
a huge amount of work --- every transaction-or-longer-lifetime data
structure in the backend will need to be looked at, for example, to see
how it can be rolled back to the proper state after a statement abort.
It'll probably get done someday, but don't hold your breath ...
regards, tom lane
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