Re: "No transaction in progress" warning

On Thursday 07 May 2009 3:33:09 am Conrad Lender wrote:
> Hello.
>
> We've recently discovered a bug in our code that resulted in COMMITs
> without BEGINs, and our client saw "no transaction in progress" warnings
> in his log file. What worries me is that we didn't discover this problem
> during development - the warning doesn't show up in our logs. We're both
> using 8.3, and the settings in both postgresql.conf files are similar
> (except for memory settings and file locations).
>
> SHOW log_min_messages;
>  log_min_messages
> ------------------
>  notice
> (1 row)
>
> I thought this would cause all warnings to be logged automatically. When
> I enter "COMMIT" in psql, I do get the warning, but I don't see it in
> the log file. What could be the problem?

Are you certain you are looking at the correct log file? One way I test is to
run 'select 1/0;' this yields an ERROR.

>
>
> Thanks,
>   - Conrad



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