Re: Bug in Function-Transactions?

Josh Berkus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I just encountered a very interesting bug in ver 7.2.1.
>
> As an experiment, I tried running a VACCUUM ANALYZE on a table inside a
> Function after the function had made a large number of updates to that
> table.   I assumed that this wouldn't work, but I thought I'd give it a
> try.
>
> It did not work.  What it did was interesting.
>
> Postgres terminated my back-end connection to the server when it
> reached the VACUUM statement.
>
> Next, I reconnected. I was quite surprised to discover that Postgres
> had *not* rolled back the changes made by the function before it
> crashed.
>
> I'm testing to see if I can reproduce this issue on 7.3b1.   I'll
> e-mail you with a test database if I can.

You will not be able to reproduce it.  7.3 disabled VACUUM inside
functions for that exact reason.

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