Re: transactions from PHP - double COMMIT required?

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, mikie wrote:

>
> Yes, that is nice way to work with databases, but I am on PHP4 and I
> am not using the PDO.

MDB2 has a similar sintaxis.

> But getting back to my problem - perhaps there is something I
> misunderstood: is it the client application responsibility to check if
> the transaction failed or succeeded and issue COMMIT or ROLLBACK
> accordingly (how do I close the transaction block in that case)?
> Or is it the database server that is suppose to check if transaction
> succeded and perform the query, or ROLLBACK if anything went wrong?

PG will rollback all transactions that have an error in some part, as it
can't commit the transaction as a whole.

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