On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:10:57PM -0500, Rudy Lippan wrote: > Somewhat old, but: > > http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2000-02/msg00376.php
The postgres guys sometimes seem to have a weird idea of what application developers want. "Very minor programming shortcut" indeed! It would be like unix terminating programs just because one system call fails. :-) > (musing aloud: I wonder if they would accept a patch that made it > configurable?) This message http://archives.postgresql.org/pgadmin-support/2003-02/msg00043.php makes it seem that it might be hard to get the transaction back into a consistent state after an error. So it might be a lot of work to write that patch. :-( Andrew