On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 15:20:17 -0400,
Emi Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> greetings,
>
> I remembered I read something in the mailing list about "*rollback*" a
> while ago. People mentioned that some operations cannot rollback.
> I cannot remember what kinds of perations are not be able to rollback?
I actually have the message saved for reference, so it is easier attach it
rather than try to figure out how to link to it in the archives.
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Bruno Wolff III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I wasn't able to find where this is spelled out in the documentation,
> but I believe all DDL commands except DROP DATABASE can be rolled back now.
I don't think there's any all-in-one-place statement about it, but
anything that doesn't explicitly object to being put inside a
transaction block can be rolled back. Grepping for
PreventTransactionChain, I see that the current suspects are
CLUSTER (only the multi-table variants)
CREATE DATABASE
DROP DATABASE
REINDEX DATABASE
CREATE TABLESPACE
DROP TABLESPACE
VACUUM
regards, tom lane
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