Re: [PATCHES] Continue transactions after errors in psql

Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>

From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2005-04-26T05:54:34Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> 
>
>>Personally I favor 1), so would prefer:
>>
>>enable it by default only for interactive sessions, like AUTOCOMMIT
> 
> 
> We are going for 'off' by default and only interactive. 

Sweet.

> The fact that
> interactive and non-interactive behavior is different is something that
> suggests that turning it on by default might cause confusion.
> 

True, but reasonably explained by suggesting that non-interactive 
scripts should not be expected to keep going when there are typos or 
similar. In fact, I seem to recall being burned by that very thing in my 
early Oracle days...

Mark