Re: psycopg2: proper positioning of .commit() within try: except: blocks

On 9/7/24 14:20, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> Am Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 02:09:28PM -0700 schrieb Adrian Klaver:
>
>>> Right, and this was suggested elsewhere ;)
>>>
>>> And, yeah, the actual code is much more involved :-D
>>>
>>
>> I see that.
>>
>> The question is does the full code you show fail?
>>
>> The code sample you show in your original post is doing something very different then
>> what you show in your latest post. At this point I do not understand the exact problem
>> we are dealing with.
>
> We are not dealing with an unsolved problem. I had been
> asking for advice where to best place that .commit() call in
> case I am overlooking benefits and drawbacks of choices.
>
> The
>
> try:
> do something
> except:
> log something
> finally:
> .commit()
>
> cadence is fairly Pythonic and elegant in that it ensures the
> the .commit() will always be reached regardless of exceptions
> being thrown or not and them being handled or not.

Elegant is nice, but correct is better:)

>
> It is also insufficient because the .commit() itself may
> elicit exceptions (from the database).

Yeah with Serializable that is part of the package:

"While PostgreSQL's Serializable transaction isolation level only allows
concurrent transactions to commit if it can prove there is a serial
order of execution that would produce the same effect ..."

> Boring and repetitive and safe(r):
>
> try:
> do something
> except:
> log something
> try:
> .commit()
> except:
> log something
>
> I eventually opted for the last version, except for factoring
> out the second try: except: block.

I'm not following, if you do that then you won't have a commit.

>
> Best,
> Karsten
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