Re: Connecting website with SQL-database.....

Ed Loehr <eloehr@austin.rr.com>

From: Ed Loehr <eloehr@austin.rr.com>
To: Manuel Lemos <mlemos@acm.org>
Cc: Lincoln Yeoh <lylyeoh@mecomb.com>, tomg@admin.nrnet.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-04-24T19:10:21Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Manuel Lemos wrote:
> 
> >Plus if you get a warning/error, Postgresql _requires_ you to rollback,
> >whereas many other databases don't.
> 
> That's what Metabase expects. When there is an error, you should rollback
> before exiting a transaction with AutoCommit(Off).
> 
> I noticed the discussion but I could not quite figure what was the problem.

The problem on this, from my perspective, is that if you have a transaction
that consists of 20 queries, and the 14th query fails, then you'd like to
be able to abort only the *statement*, recovering in the client application
in whatever way seems appropriate.  Automatically *forcing* a rollback
takes that recovery choice away.

Regards,
Ed Loehr