I've had this small patch in my local tree for a while. It documents

new commands which may make an SPI call fail.

Alvaro Herrera

diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml
index 412b88af8f38d00f1888f9232902437085c18aeb..f7efa3c37fa5c1fd8af78263ac676ccdb812c93a 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml,v 1.41 2005/05/02 00:37:06 neilc Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/spi.sgml,v 1.42 2005/07/29 13:00:03 momjian Exp $
 -->
 
 <chapter id="spi">
@@ -537,8 +537,15 @@ typedef struct
      <term><symbol>SPI_ERROR_TRANSACTION</symbol></term>
      <listitem>
       <para>
-       if <command>BEGIN</>, <command>COMMIT</>, or
-       <command>ROLLBACK</> was attempted
+          if any command involving transaction manipulation was attempted
+          (<command>BEGIN</>,
+          <command>COMMIT</>,
+          <command>ROLLBACK</>,
+          <command>SAVEPOINT</>,
+          <command>PREPARE TRANSACTION</>,
+          <command>COMMIT PREPARED</>,
+          <command>ROLLBACK PREPARED</>,
+          or any variant thereof)
       </para>
      </listitem>
     </varlistentry>