Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Shouldn't that be back-patched?
>
> > Uh, well, it is going to change the behavior of back branches, and
> > because we only got one report of the bug which has existed since 8.2, I
> > didn't want to risk it. Should I?
>
> I would say that the odds of the initial BEGIN failing are negligible
> anyway, so what it boils down to is whether a failure on the final
> COMMIT needs to be reported. Seems to me the answer is "yes", and the
> only reason we haven't had more complaints is that not too many people
> have actually relied on the exit status. Anyone who *does* look at the
> exit status is not going to be happy with the current behavior.
>
> In short: it's a bug, fix it.
OK, done.
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