On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 9:00 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johns...@gmail.com> writes: > > On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 8:33 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > >> What we do have though is client-side support for appropriate behaviors. > >> In psql, see the AUTOCOMMIT and ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK control variables. > > > Not quite the same. I think what people probably want is for psql to > > recognize it is in a transaction and before sending a command to the > server > > for processing to precede it by sending "SAVEPOINT random()". Then, > before > > returning the result of the command to the user issue either "RELEASE > > SAVEPOINT" or "ROLLBACK TO SAVEPOINT" depending on whether the command > > succeeded or failed. Then report the result to the user. > > Which part of that isn't implemented by ON_ERROR_ROLLBACK? > My turn to fail to re-read the docs :( David J.
