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Re: BUG #19036: Failed prepared INSERT statement make another SELECT query generate wrong result
ZhangChi <798604270@qq.com> — 2025-08-30T02:09:36Z
Hi, I got it, thank you for your detailed explanation! Original From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> Date: 2025年8月30日 10:06 To: David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> Cc: ZhangChi <798604270@qq.com>, pgsql-bugs <pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org> Subject: Re: BUG #19036: Failed prepared INSERT statement make another SELECT query generate wrong result "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes: > On Friday, August 29, 2025, ZhangChi <798604270@qq.com> wrote: >> I still have a problem with this. When an INSERT fails, why not undo all >> the effects of the INSERT? > Performance. Yeah. You can certainly argue that it was a design error to make nextval() nontransactional, but the performance advantages are compelling. Most critically, if we required that, then any transaction doing nextval() would block all other transactions from doing nextval() on the same sequence: they'd have to wait to see if the first one committed before they could know what value to use. (Deadlocks between nextval's on different sequences could be a problem as well.) So the odds that we'd change that are nil, even if there weren't a few decades worth of backwards compatibility to worry about. regards, tom lane