| From: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jose Soares <jose(at)sferacarta(dot)com> |
| Cc: | hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>, general <pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] TRANSACTIONS |
| Date: | 2000-02-22 18:47:16 |
| Message-ID: | 3.0.1.32.20000222104716.010bd050@mail.pacifier.com |
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At 11:32 AM 2/22/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>I see no way that allowing the transaction to commit after an overflow
>can be called consistent with the spec.
You are absolutely right. The whole point is that either a) everything
commits or b) nothing commits.
Having some kinds of exceptions allow a partial commit while other
exceptions rollback the transaction seems like a very error-prone
programming environment to me.
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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