Re: PL/perl elog(ERROR) Does not Abort Transaction

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Subject: Re: PL/perl elog(ERROR) Does not Abort Transaction
Date: 2012-05-11 17:19:15
Message-ID: 8223.1336756755@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"David E. Wheeler" <david(at)justatheory(dot)com> writes:
> On May 11, 2012, at 9:51 AM, David E. Wheeler wrote:
>> \set ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK interactive
>>
>> So I guess it transparently rolls back a savepoint for the previous statement. I had forgotten I turned that on. Apologies for the noise.

Ah-hah.

> OTOH, might it be useful to have psql show some sort of status message when it does this?

The same occurred to me, but after more thought I think it'd just be
horribly annoying after a short time. People who have this set will
(or should, anyway) be expecting errors to be nonfatal to their
transactions.

regards, tom lane

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