From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Chip Gobs <chip.gobs@noaa.gov>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Implicit Transactions
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:34:27 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200409201234.i8KCYRK07220@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <414AF83E.AFA00204@noaa.gov>
Chip Gobs wrote:
>
> We are porting from Informix to PostgreSQL 7.4.5 and have noticed the
> following behavior.
>
> If we try to OPEN a CURSOR for an invalid SELECT statement in ECPG, we
> get an error, as expected. However, if we then
> attempt to OPEN another CURSOR for a valid statement, we get an error
> that says we are in a failed transaction. At that point, no statement
> will succeed. The only way we have found to get out of this state is
> to ROLLBACK explicitly.
>
> We are not using explicit transactions. My understanding is that PG
> should be rolling back failed statements when we are not in an
> explicit transaction.
>
> Do we have an incorrect setting, a misunderstanding of how it is
> supposed to work, or a bug? Could anyone enlighten me?
ecpg defaults to open transaction by default. There is a command to
change that in ecpg or during compile I think.
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