Re: Managing Rollback

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: hstenger(at)ieee(dot)org
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Managing Rollback
Date: 2000-07-31 19:31:24
Message-ID: 10341.965071884@sss.pgh.pa.us
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hstenger(at)adinet(dot)com(dot)uy writes:
> What do we mean in the last two lines of the following comment?

> /* ----------------
> * Here we are in the middle of a
> transaction block but
> * one of the commands caused an abort so
> we do nothing
> * but remain in the abort state.
> Eventually we will get
> * to the "END TRANSACTION" which will set
> things straight.
> * ----------------
> */
> case TBLOCK_ABORT:

It just means that nothing's going to happen until the user sends
COMMIT or ROLLBACK --- the xact.c state will remain the same until
then.

regards, tom lane

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