Re: [HACKERS] TRANSACTIONS

Jose Soares <jose@sferacarta.com>

From: Jose Soares <jose@sferacarta.com>
To: Dmitry Samersoff <dms@wplus.net>
Cc: general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>, hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-02-23T13:22:04Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

Dmitry Samersoff wrote:

> On 22-Feb-2000 Jose Soares wrote:
> > begin transaction;
> > create table tmp(a int);
> > insert into tmp values (1);
> > insert into tmp values (1000000000000000000000000000000000);
> > ERROR:  pg_atoi: error reading "1000000000000000000000000000000000":
> > Numerical result out of range
> > commit;
> > select * from tmp;
> > ERROR:  tmp: Table does not exist.
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > Interbase, Oracle,Informix,Solid,Ms-Access,DB2:
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^
>  AFAIK, MS Access have no transactions inside it,
>  Informix (at least old versions I worked with) always
>  perform create,drop, alter object outside transaction
>  but IMHO it's not right behavior.

I don't know and I don't care about old software,
I'm talking about Ms_Access97 and Informix 8.

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Jose' Soares
Bologna, Italy                     Jose@sferacarta.com