"Phillip J. Eby" wrote:
>
> >That's great. Did you get my message about errors in triggered methods?
>
> Yes, I did, but the solution requires some more thought. I had thought I
> had the "Transactional" machinery set up so that stuff was only called
> during transaction phases where it was safe to throw errors. So I'm going
> to have to go back and review that. However, I also think that errors in
> triggers should result in a rollback-and-abort, rather than silently
> failing, which could cause many other problems.
Right. So the application designer has the choice of whether to put
their methods that are called by GenericTriggers in try-except blocks,
if it doesn't matter if the trigger fails. But it is generally assumed
that triggers need to run without exceptions for the application to work
consistently.
--
Steve Alexander
Software Engineer
Cat-Box limited
http://www.cat-box.net
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