From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Brar Piening <brar@gmx.de>
Cc: mike.adelson314@gmail.com
Cc: pgsql-bugs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: BUG #16988: Spurious "SET LOCAL can only be used in transaction blocks" warning using implicit transaction block
Date: Sat, 01 May 2021 19:35:55 -0400
Message-ID: <3493686.1619912155@sss.pgh.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3a158f8d-708e-ad13-617a-af8349aae4f4@gmx.de>
References: <16988-58edba102adb5128@postgresql.org>
<3044772.1619712195@sss.pgh.pa.us>
<3a158f8d-708e-ad13-617a-af8349aae4f4@gmx.de>
Brar Piening <brar@gmx.de> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> PG Bug reporting form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
>>> I am using SET LOCAL in an Npgsql multi-statement command.
>> It seems that whatever Npgsql is doing at the wire protocol level
>> doesn't match this, but they'd have to explain what they are doing
>> for us to offer much help.
> At the wire protocol level npgsql sends this as two queries via the
> extended query protocol without a sync inbetween them.
> (Parse,Bind,Describe,Execute;Parse,Bind,Describe,Execute,Sync)
There is no implicit transaction block around the two commands in such
a case, so that explains why it doesn't act as Mike was hoping.
Omitting the Sync has zero effect on transactional semantics; it only
means that if the first command fails, we'll skip the second one.
regards, tom lane
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Subject: Re: BUG #16988: Spurious "SET LOCAL can only be used in transaction blocks" warning using implicit transaction block
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