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Re: [HACKERS] TRANSACTIONS

Jose Soares <jose@sferacarta.com> — 2000-02-23T13:46:54Z

Don Baccus wrote:

> At 11:32 AM 2/22/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >I see no way that allowing the transaction to commit after an overflow
> >can be called consistent with the spec.
>
> You are absolutely right.  The whole point is that either a) everything
> commits or b) nothing commits.
>
> Having some kinds of exceptions allow a partial commit while other
> exceptions rollback the transaction seems like a very error-prone
> programming environment to me.
>

It is hard to believe all world is wrong and only we are right. Isn't it ?
;)

>
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Jose' Soares
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