Hi all,
The behavior of rollback when an error occurs on an handle is
controlled by extending Protocol with "$PROTNUM-[0|1|2]" where:
- 0 = let the application handle rollbacks
- 1 = rollback whole transaction when an error occurs
- 2 = rollback only statement that failed
Using such an extension is somewhat awkward as a single string is used
for two settings... The proposed attached patch adds a new parameter
called RollbackError that allows to control the behavior of rollback
on error with a different parameter.
For backward-compatibility purposes, this patch does not break the old
grammar of Protocol: it just gives the priority to RollbackError if
both Protocol and RollbackError are set for a connection. Regression
tests to test RollbackError and combinations of RollbackError/Protocol
are added in the patch in the existing test error-rollback (which has
needed some refactoring, older tests are not impacted). Docs are
included as well.
I thought first about including that in my cleanup work for 9.4, but
as this actually does not break the driver it may be worth adding it
directly to master, explaining the patch attached here. Comments
welcome. Note that if there are objections I do not mind adding that
for the work that would be merged later to 9.4 builds.
Regards,
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Michael