Re: Unable to commit: transaction marked for rollback

David Kerr <dmk@mr-paradox.net> wrote:

> javax.transaction.RollbackException: Unable to commit: transaction
> marked for rollback
>
> Can someone give me a scenario where this would happen?

It sounds like the right exception for the case where a previous
statement generated an error within a database transaction.  After
that, any attempt to run a statement would generate this at the
PostgreSQL level:

ERROR:  current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end
of transaction block

until a ROLLBACK or COMMIT (which would be treated as a ROLLBACK
because of the transaction state) is executed.

That sounds like exactly the case for which RollbackException was
created:

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/transaction/TransactionRolledbackException.html

-Kevin