Re: Rollback on Error

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: "Michael Paesold" <mpaesold(at)gmx(dot)at>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rollback on Error
Date: 2004-09-14 09:56:42
Message-ID: 200409141156.42492.peter_e@gmx.net
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Michael Paesold wrote:
> I though the postgres behaviour of rolling back the whole transaction
> was standard?

No.

> If that is not the case, I don't understand why core
> seems to be against a mode (GUC), where an implicit savepoint is
> generated before each statement so that "rollback of the last
> statement" would be possible.

Because it's dangerous in noninteractive mode. When you send a
transaction to the server, you don't want some statements be left out.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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