Re: Transactional DDL

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To: "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Harpreet Dhaliwal" <harpreet(dot)dhaliwal01(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Jasbinder Singh Bali" <jsbali(at)gmail(dot)com>, "Michael Glaesemann" <grzm(at)seespotcode(dot)net>, "Alexander Staubo" <alex(at)purefiction(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Transactional DDL
Date: 2007-06-03 07:41:58
Message-ID: op.ttb4z80gcigqcu@apollo13
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On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:39:11 +0200, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> "Jaime Casanova" <systemguards(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
>> Tom's example seems to show that mysql inserts a commit immidiatelly
>> after a DDL but this one example shows the thing is worse than that.
>
> Actually, I think their behavior is just "DDL issues a COMMIT", so that
> after that you are out of the transaction and the INSERT commits
> immediately. Some experimentation shows that mysql doesn't issue a
> warning for rollback-outside-a-transaction, so the lack of any complaint
> at the rollback step is just standard mysql-ism.

Yes, their manual explains this and warns against it. The full list is
here :

http://www.mysql.org/doc/refman/5.1/en/implicit-commit.html

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