AW: Now PostgreSQL recovers from errors within trns

> > hstenger(at)adinet(dot)com(dot)uy writes:
> > > My goal is to make the backend accept erroneous commands,
> not falling
> > > in *ABORT STATE*, but rolling back automatically, &
> continue accepting
> > > commands.
> >
> > The way you're doing it, you might as well just not use transaction
> > blocks at all. I don't think wiping out the effects of all
> preceding
> > commands within the transaction counts as "recovering from
> an error".
>
> Ok, maybe I exagerated, but kind of solves my problem.
> GeneXus, my CASE tool,
> will send begin/commit pairs, so I must 'recover'
> automatically. I aimed
> DB2-like behaviour, which I was told, aborts on errors within
> transactions, but
> remains in a runnable state. Don't you consider it valueable
> whatsoever?

DB/2 only aborts the one single statement inside this transaction.
What you did will rollback everything since the last begin work,
and thus is rather dangerous.

Andreas