Re: UPDATE after Cancle

On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 13:05 -0700, David Kerr wrote:
> Howdy all -
>
> I just got this odd behavior in my system.
>
> This is PG 8.3.10 on RedHat 5.4
>
> psql bla
> bla=# update blatab set blafield = replace(blafield,'XXX-1','XXX1-')
> where created_by = 'blauser';
>
> <runs for a while>
> <dave hit's ctl-c becuase i messed up the substitution value >
>
> Cancel request sent
> UPDATE 8231584
>
> I checked and the updated did happen.
>
> autocommit is on, and i wasn't in a TX or anything strange like that.
>
> My guess is that i hit ctl-c during the commit of the data and it wasn't
> able to rollback.
>
> Any idea if that's the case? and if so, is that expected?

It finished before it received the cancellation. You need to be using
transactions.

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
>

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