Vacuum in multi-statement

Started by Heikki Linnakangasalmost 19 years ago2 messages
#1Heikki Linnakangas
heikki@enterprisedb.com

This used to work in 8.2:

psql postgres -c "VACUUM table1; SELECT now()"

But in cvs head it throws an error:
ERROR: VACUUM cannot be executed from a function or multi-command string

This must be because of the recent changes to PreventTransactionChain.

Should we try to keep the old behavior for backwards-compatibility? The
change will break some people's scripts, that's the way I noticed it.

--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com

#2Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Heikki Linnakangas (#1)
Re: Vacuum in multi-statement

Heikki Linnakangas <heikki@enterprisedb.com> writes:

This used to work in 8.2:
psql postgres -c "VACUUM table1; SELECT now()"

But in cvs head it throws an error:
ERROR: VACUUM cannot be executed from a function or multi-command string

That's intentional. It "worked" only for rather small values of "work".

regards, tom lane