From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com>, Morten Hustveit <morten(at)eventures(dot)vc>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Suggestion: Issue warning when calling SET TRANSACTION outside transaction block |
Date: | 2013-11-19 18:31:55 |
Message-ID: | 20131119183155.GR28149@momjian.us |
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 01:20:47PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I think the pattern is and should be different for toplevel
> transaction control commands than for other things. If you issue a
> BEGIN, we want it to end up that you're definitely in a transaction at
> that point, and if you issue a COMMIT or ROLLBACK or ABORT, we want
> you to definitely be out of a transaction after that. This is
> important for reasons discussed on Andrew's thread about pre-commit
> triggers just today.
>
> The same considerations don't apply elsewhere; the user has made a
> mistake, and there's no particular reason not to throw an ERROR. We
> could throw a WARNING or NOTICE and pretend like things are OK, but
> there doesn't seem to be much point, certainly not enough to justify
> changing long-established behavior.
OK, what I am hearing you say is that we should change ABORT from NOTICE
to WARNING, leave SAVEPOINT/ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT as WARNING (so all
transaction control commands are warnings), and leave the new SET
commands as ERRORs. Works for me.
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us
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