Re: PL/perl elog(ERROR) Does not Abort Transaction

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(dot)wheeler(at)iovation(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: PL/perl elog(ERROR) Does not Abort Transaction
Date: 2012-05-11 00:27:26
Message-ID: B9C0E3A6-EA17-4F7B-9C34-35D047330272@iovation.com
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On May 10, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

>>
>> Shouldn't a call to elog(NOTICE) invalidate the current tranaction?
>
> I assume you mean elog(ERROR)?

Yes, sorry.

> Well, git head show an error:
>
> test=> begin;
> BEGIN
> test=> do language plperl $$ elog(ERROR, 'foo')$$;
> ERROR: foo at line 1.
> CONTEXT: PL/Perl anonymous code block
> test=> select true;
> ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of
> transaction block

Interesting. My build (from source):

PostgreSQL 9.1.3 on x86_64-apple-darwin11.3.0, compiled by i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.1.00), 64-bit
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Best,

David

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