Re: Error on failed COMMIT

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Vladimir Sitnikov <sitnikov(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Cramer <davecramer(at)postgres(dot)rocks>, Shay Rojansky <roji(at)roji(dot)org>, "Haumacher, Bernhard" <haui(at)haumacher(dot)de>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Error on failed COMMIT
Date: 2020-02-25 07:55:03
Message-ID: CA+TgmoazgZYHyvXhKdNVxKmhJRqy8HcjZJa3j2bdsR3_Wj7=3Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 12:47 PM Vladimir Sitnikov
<sitnikov(dot)vladimir(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Noone suggested that "commit leaves the session in a transaction state".
> Of course, every commit should terminate the transaction.
> However, if a commit fails (for any reason), it should produce the relevant ERROR that explains what went wrong rather than silently doing a rollback.

OK, I guess I misinterpreted the proposal. That would be much less
problematic -- any driver or application that can't handle ERROR in
response to an attempted COMMIT would be broken already.

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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company

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