Re: Small question

Tom Lane wrote:
> Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> > Joep deVocht wrote:
> >> Is there a way to determine whether a transaction
> >> is started and not ended yet?
>
> > I think it's time to add a little boolean function, that
> > actually returns IsTransactionBlock(), and have a libpq side
> > wrapper around PQfn() calling it.
>
> If you're in TRANSACTION ABORT state, I do not think that will work.
>
> Offhand this seems more of a protocol issue. A straightforward solution
> would be to add a status indicator (with three states: out of
> transaction, in transaction, in aborted transaction) to the
> ReadyForQuery message, but we can't do that without a protocol change,
> which is probably more trouble than it's worth.

Yes, I was wondering if it was worth having the client call the function
at the end of every query.

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