Re: Nested Transaction TODO list

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Nested Transaction TODO list
Date: 2004-07-04 03:12:56
Message-ID: 26794.1088910776@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Oliver Jowett <oliver(at)opencloud(dot)com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> I haven't looked at JDBC, but at least in the libpq code, what we could
>> safely do is extend the existing no transaction/in transaction/in failed
>> transaction field to provide a five-way distinction: those three cases
>> plus in subtransaction/in failed subtransaction.

> This will break the existing JDBC driver in nonobvious ways: the current
> code silently ignores unhandled transaction states in ReadyForQuery,

Drat. Scratch that plan then. (Still, silently ignoring unrecognized
states probably wasn't a good idea for the JDBC code...)

regards, tom lane

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