Re: AUTOCOMMIT currently doesn't handle non-transactional commands very well

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: AUTOCOMMIT currently doesn't handle non-transactional commands very well
Date: 2006-07-19 14:38:23
Message-ID: 25886.1153319903@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Gregory Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> writes:
> One possible criticism is that a user that manually does BEGIN; CLUSTER
> DATABASE; ROLLBACK; won't be warned that the cluster will not be undoable.

s/possible criticism/deal-breaker/ ... you can't possibly think that the
above would be acceptable. It'd be worse than "won't be undoable"; it'd
probably corrupt your database.

regards, tom lane

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