Re: [GENERAL] undefined behaviour for sub-transactions?

Tyler MacDonald <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.perl,gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.general,gmane.comp.db.postgresql.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jaime Casanova <[email protected]> wrote:
> >        Either way the end result is that some database drivers poison a
> > transaction if there's any error, others are selective about which errors
> > are fatal and which are not, and still others just don't care at all.
> that is a mis-conception... a transaction *must* be atomic (all or nothing)...
> the reason some databases act that bad is because they don't support
> savepoints, and because postgres does it doesn't need that
> awfulness...

	OK, maybe I should have s/poison/behave properly with/. :-)

		- Tyler

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