Re: BEGIN inside transaction should be an error

    I dont think anyone is arguing that such an application is not
broken. We should see how we can stop a developer from writing buggy
code.
   IMO, such a GUC variable _should_ be created and turned on by default.
   In case an application fails, at the least, the developer knows
that his application is broken; then he can choose to turn off the GUC
variable to let the old behaviour prevail (he might want to do this to
let a production env. continue).
   In the absence of such a feature, we are encouraging developers to
write buggy code. This GUC variable can be removed and the behaviour
can be made default over the next couple of releases.

My two paise...

On 5/10/06, Bernd Helmle <mailings@oopsware.de> wrote:
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> --On Mittwoch, Mai 10, 2006 12:36:07 +0200 Mario Weilguni
> <mweilguni@sime.com> wrote:
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> >> Such a behavior is already broken by design. I think it's not desirable
> >> to blindly do
> >> transaction start or commit without tracking the current transaction
> >> state. So these wrappers
> >> need to be fixed first.
> >
> > You mean broken like "transform_null_equals"? Or "add_missing_from"?
>
> You missed my point. I don't say that such a GUC won't be useful, but
> applications which
> don't care about what they are currently doing with a database are broken.
>
>
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>                     Bernd
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