On Aug 23, 2006, at 7:31 AM, <Christof.Paal@nc3a.nato.int>
<Christof.Paal@nc3a.nato.int> wrote:
> Let us assume that the second statement fails because value 'b' is
> illegal.
> Either the ODBC driver or the DBMS now rejects all follow-on queries
> with the error message:
> Error while executing the query;
> ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until
> end of transaction block
>
> I would have expected that it would still be possible to run queries
> inside this transaction (in fact, the same code continues to run in
> Sybase and MSSQL Server).
> Otherwise it is not possible to write your own transaction logic or
> your
> own error handling in this environment.
Why continue to run commands if you're just going to roll them back?
In any case, I fail to see how this makes it impossible to control
transactions. Perhaps you need to look into savepoints?
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