Re: expected trigger behavior in transactions

["Noah Davis" <noah(at)acadaca(dot)com>]

Sorry about that. Anyhow, as sometimes happens, the problem was unrelated to
JDBC and postgres.

Thanks for your time anyhow.

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From: pgsql-jdbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-jdbc-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Dave Cramer
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 1:29 PM
To: Noah Davis
Cc: pgsql-jdbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [JDBC] expected trigger behavior in transactions

Noah,

Can you please post in plain text?

I'd suggest looking at the postgresql logs to see what is really going on.

There are no "special" contexts.

Dave
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 13:01, Noah Davis wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> Forgive me if this isn't directly a JDBC issue.
>  
> I have some triggers setup in postgres that are triggered before 
> inserts. They are pretty basic triggers. They update some columns and 
> then continue on with the insert.
>  
> We have some java code which starts a transaction (sets auto commit to
> false) and then performs some inserts. If successful, it commits the 
> transaction. Sometimes, it appears like the trigger is fired but does 
> not commit. Is there a separate connection context for triggers? Do I 
> have to worry about how triggers work within a transaction? If I 
> commit/rollback an insert, does it commit/rollback the triggers which 
> were fired?
>  
> It seems like when I do the steps directly in postgres, the triggers 
> are fired appropriately if in a transaction. However, within Java, in 
> some cases the triggers either aren't fired, or are fired, but do not 
> commit when jdbc commits. Any ideas what's going on here?
>  
> Thanks for any help,
>  
> Noah
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