Re: Question regarding Sync message and unnamed portal

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 09:25:56AM +0900, Tatsuo Ishii wrote:
>> Sorry for confusion.
>>
>> I knew an unamed portal only lasts until current transaction ends. I
>> was confused in the case when no explicit transaction is used.
>>
>> At completion of each series of extended-query messages, the
>> frontend should issue a Sync message.
>>
>> This is not actually true because Sync is not actually mandatory as
>> Tom pointed out before. We could use a Flush message instead but it's
>> another story. And next sentence says:
>>
>> This parameterless message causes the backend to close the current
>> transaction if it's not inside a BEGIN/COMMIT transaction block
>> ("close" meaning to commit if no error, or roll back if error).
>>
>> I did not understand this at first because if we are not inside a
>> BEGIN/COMMIT transaction block, how does Sync close it? In my
>> understanding each extended query message(parse/bind/execute) starts
>> an internal transaction and does not close it until Sync issued(and
>> Sync is mandatory according to the manual). So if we are not in an
>> explicit transaction we cannot reuse unnamed portal because Sync
>> closes the transaction, which in turn destroys the unnamed portal.
>> This gave me a miss understanding that unnamed portal is destroyed
>> even transaction is not explicitly closed.
>>
>> It would be nice if something like "unnamed portal will be destroyed
>> by a Sync message if you are in an explicit transaction" is in our
>> manual.
>
> I am back to this issue and still confused. Perhaps if I give some
> specific examples it will help.
>
> Based on the current documentation, I assume that if you do an explicit
> transaction (BEGIN WORK), Sync will not close any portals. For an
> implicit transaction, I assume Sync will close all portals except FOR
> HOLD named portals. Is this not how it behaves?

Sorry for confusion. I wanted to say:

> It would be nice if something like "unnamed portal will be destroyed
> by a Sync message if you are in an implicit transaction" is in our
> manual.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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