Re: PGJDBC 8 transaction problem

Rodrigo Willian Bonatto wrote:

> query.append("BEGIN;");
> query.append("update employee set age = 28 where age = 27;");
> query.append("COMMIT;");
> query.append("select name from employee where age = 28");
> ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery(query.toString());
>
> Here the resultset will return “John”, but if I use PGJDBC driver
> version 8 or greater, the statement return any result.

The more recent drivers implement support for returning multiple
resultsets from a query correctly, which older drivers didn't do. Your
Statement will actually have four results associated with it -- one for
each of BEGIN, UPDATE, COMMIT, SELECT. I would expect executeQuery() to
throw an exception because the query returned something other than a
single resultset.

You will need to use Statement.execute() / Statement.getMoreResults() /
Statement.getResultSet() to step to the 4th result and retrieve the
SELECT's results (you could also get at the UPDATE's update count in a
similar way).

Also, you should avoid explicit BEGIN/COMMIT statements if you can --
Connection.setAutocommit() / Connection.commit() is the recommended way
to manage transaction boundaries.

-O