Re: Vote on SET in aborted transaction

From: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Michael Loftis <mloftis(at)wgops(dot)com>
Cc: Jan Wieck <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)fourpalms(dot)org>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Vote on SET in aborted transaction
Date: 2002-04-25 02:20:58
Message-ID: 3CC7680A.97D4C5EC@tpf.co.jp
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Michael Loftis wrote:
>
> Hiroshi Inoue wrote:
>
> >Where's the restriction that all objects in a schema
> >must be created in an transaction ? Each user has his
> >reason and would need various kind of command call sequence.
> >What I've mainly insisted is what to do with errors is
> >users' responsibilty but I've never seen the agreement
> >for it. So my current understanding is you all
> >are thinking what to do with errors is system's
> >responsibilty. Then no matter how users call commands
> >the dbms must behave appropriately, mustn't it ?
> >
> IMHO as a user and developer it's more important to behave consistently.
> A rollback should cause everything inside of a transaciton block to
> rollback.

Where does the *should* come from ?
The standard says that changes to the database should
be put back but doesn't say everything should be put back.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue
http://w2422.nsk.ne.jp/~inoue/

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