Re: [GENERAL] ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: Bernd Helmle <mailings(at)oopsware(dot)de>, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK
Date: 2014-12-31 15:20:48
Message-ID: 6763.1420039248@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> On 12/30/2014 09:20 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In one light this is certainly a bug fix, but in another it's just
>> definitional instability.
>>
>> If we'd gotten a field bug report we might well have chosen to back-patch,
>> though, and perhaps your client's complaint counts as that.

> I got caught by this with ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK on 9.3 just this afternoon
> before remembering this thread. So there's a field report :-)

> +0.75 for backpatching (It's hard to imagine someone relying on the bad
> behaviour, but you never know).

It seems like there's a consensus in favor of back-patching this change,
so I'll go ahead and do that.

regards, tom lane

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