Re: timeout implementation issues

Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
> > > ??? What do you mean by
> > > o Some SETs are honored in an aborted transaction (current)
> > > ?
> > > Is the current state different from
> > > o All SETs are honored in an aborted transaction
> > > ?
> >
> > In the case of:
> >
> > BEGIN WORK;
> > SET x=1;
> > bad query that aborts transaction;
> > SET x=2;
> > COMMIT WORK;
> >
> > Only the first SET is done, so at the end, x = 1. If all SET's were
> > honored, x = 2. If no SETs in an aborted transaction were honored, x
> > would equal whatever it was before the BEGIN WORK above.
>
> IMHO
> o No SETs are honored in an aborted transaction(current)
>
> The first SET isn't done in an aborted transaction.

I guess my point is that with our current code, there is a distinction
that SETs are executed before a transaction aborts, but are ignored
after a transaction aborts, even if the SETs are in the same
transaction.

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