On 6/2/07, Jasbinder Singh Bali <jsbali(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> On 6/2/07, Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net> wrote:
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> > On Jun 2, 2007, at 11:08 , Harpreet Dhaliwal wrote:
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> > > Whats so novel about postgresql here?
> > > This would happen in any RDBMS. right?
> > > You induced divide by zero exception that crashed the whole
> > > transaction and it did not create the table bar?
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> > [Please don't top-post. It makes the discussion hard to follow.]
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> > I used the divide by zero to raise an error to show that both the
> > CREATE TABLE and the INSERT were rolled back when the transaction
> > failed. If there's another definition of transactional DDL, I'd like
> > to know what it is.
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> > Michael Glaesemann
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> This is what happens in every RDBMS. Whats so special about postgres then?
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Exactly. this seems like proving the ACIC property of a database thats true
for every RDBMS.
Whats so different in postgresql then?