Re: Vote totals for SET in aborted transaction

Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 17:09, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> > For this reason, I propose that a transaction should "inherit" its
> > environment, and that all changes EXCEPT for those affecting tuples should
> > be rolled back after completion, leaving the environment the way we found
> > it. If you need the environment changed, do it OUTSIDE the transaction.
>
> Unfortunately there is no such time in postgresql where commands are
> done outside transaction.
>
> If you don't issue BEGIN; then each command is implicitly run in its own
> transaction.
>
> Rolling each command back unless it is in implicit transaction would
> really confuse the user.

Agreed, very non-intuitive. And can you imagine how many applications
we would break.

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