Re: Cleaning up aborted transactions

PHP issues a ROLLBACK into every persistent connection before passing it to
the next process.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Spiegelberg" <gspiegelberg(at)cranel(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 7:39 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP] Cleaning up aborted transactions

> Hi all,
>
> Just so I have this straight, because I've been wondering the same,
> if someone on my web site does a SELECT and then clicks on the browser
> stop or gets click happy hitting one or many other links on the same
> web page then the 1st SELECT and all other interrupted SELECT's should
> get rolled back if each query starts with a BEGIN; because there is a
> disconnect. Correct?
>
> What about with persistant connections?
>
> Greg
>
>
> Rod Taylor wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 05:21, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
> >
> >>On Tuesday, Jun 10, 2003, at 17:05 Asia/Tokyo, Adrian Tineo wrote:
> >>
> >>>pg_connect($connection);
> >>>pg_query($connection,"BEGIN;");
> >>>$insert="INSERT INTO table VALUES (2,7,5);
> >>>$result=pg_query($connection,$insert);
> >>>if(!$result){
> >>> pg_query($connection,"ROLLBACK");
> >>> //Something went wrong with the insert so we rollback and
> >>
> > nothing
> >
> >>>changes in the db
> >>>}else{
> >>> pg_query($connection,"COMMIT");
> >>> // If everything went all right, then we commit the changes
> >>>}
> >>>pg_close($connection);
> >>
> >>
> >>Thanks, Adrian, for the illustration, especially the instance with
> >>ROLLBACK. I've figured out this sequence now.
> >>
> >>What I'm wondering about is what happens when this sequence isn't
> >>properly followed and the script quits before issuing a ROLLBACK or a
> >>COMMIT. Obviously it's not a good situation and one to be avoided.
> >
> >
> > The database, unless explicitly told to commit and the commit is
> > completely successful will always rollback.
> >
> > So a disconnect results in a rollback.
> >
>
>
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> Greg Spiegelberg
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> Cranel, Incorporated.
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