On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Jonathan Vanasco <postgres@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > begin w/o commit or rollback? > > and thanks. you've been very helpful! > > On Nov 30, 2010, at 2:21 PM, Merlin Moncure wrote: > >> Begin w/o commit is a grave application error and you should >> consider reworking your code base so that it doesn't happen (ever). meaning, you opened a transaction (with 'begin') and didn't close it with 'commit' (or 'start/end' etc). You opened a transaction but didn't close it. Don't ever do this, and don't ever leave a transaction open waiting on indeterminate events, like user input. merlin -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general