Re: Error code for "terminating connection due to conflict with recovery"

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Simon Riggs <simon@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
>>> I would make ERRCODE_DATABASE_DROPPED an Invalid Authorization error,
>>> rather than a Transaction Rollback code. So sqlstate 28P02
>
>> ISTM it should still be in class 40.  There's nothing wrong with the
>> user's authorization; we've just decided to roll back the transaction
>> for our own purposes.
>
> I agree, 28 is a completely off-point category.  But it wasn't in 40
> before, either --- we are talking about where it currently says
> ADMIN_SHUTDOWN, no?  I'd vote for keeping it in class 57 (operator
> intervention), as that is both sensible and a minimal change from
> current behavior.

Seems a little weird to me, since the administrator hasn't done
anything.  It's the system that has decide to roll the transaction
back, not the operator.

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