Re: Vote on SET in aborted transaction

Bradley McLean wrote:
> * Bruce Momjian (pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us) [020423 12:30]:
> >
> > 1 - All SETs are rolled back in aborted transaction
> > 2 - SETs are ignored after transaction abort
> > 3 - All SETs are honored in aborted transaction
> > ? - Have SETs vary in behavior depending on variable
> >
> > Our current behavior is 2.
> >
> > Please vote and I will tally the results.
>
> #2, no change in behavior.
>
> But I base that on the assumption that #1 or #3 involve serious amounts
> of work, and don't see the big benefit.

I don't want to make any big comments during the vote, but I should
mention that #1 is needed by Tom's SET for namespace path, and #1 or #3
is needed to clearly handle query timeouts.

Just thought I would refresh people's memory on how this discussion got
started.

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