Re: Cause of error message?

Bayless Kirtley wrote:
> An old app is giving a new error message. I query a table and make one
> update. Later I come back to query the table again and get this error:
>
> ERROR: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of
> transaction block
>
> The error only occurs after I have made an update. As long as no
> updates, I can query multiple times. Can anyone give me an idea of
> what sort of actions or errors usually cause this error?
>
>
It means that you have an open transaction and the statement before you
get this message failed.

e.g.
postgres=# begin;
BEGIN
postgres=# update bob set abc=1;
ERROR:  relation "bob" does not exist
postgres=# select version();
ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of
transaction block
postgres=#

You need to find which statement failed first and fix it or rollback and
have your app deal with the failure.  The postgres log is a good place
to start looking.

klint.

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