Re: Transaction issue

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 4:54 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jun 2024, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>
> > Looks to me you have a left over unresolved transaction in your psql
> session.
> > The easiest solution if that is the case is to exit the session and
> start a
> > new session to run the script.
>
> Adrian, et al.:
>
> That's what I've done. This time I commented out the BEGIN; line:
> bustrac=# \i insert-law-offices-addr.sql
> INSERT 0 66
>
> There are no errors in the file but when I tried running it as a
> transaction
> it failed.
>
> I have not before used transactions when inserting or updating tables; I'm
> surprised that starting the transaction from the psql command line chokes
> the attempt.
>

It doesn't. The rest of us have successfully done it before. You're Doing
*Something* Wrong. Don't know what, but you're doing it. Happens to *ALL
OF US*, and is why "\echo all" and "psql -a" were developed.

So we can see WTH we screwed up, and then fix it.