[DB-SIG] conn.close() idempotence

[Federico Di Gregorio]

On 19/10/11 09:59, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
[snip]
>> risks to become a problem, with the close() that may raise an error
>> > because the connection has been implicitly closed by a communication
>> > error. Note that close() in itself often is a quite safe operation,
>> > not involving database communication, so it is not expected to fail
>> > and may not be well guarded.
> That last sentence is not quite correct: .close() issues an implicit
> .rollback() and usually also tells the database backend to free up
> resources maintained for the connection, so it does require communication
> with the backend.

Here is the problem. Does .close() always issue an implicit .rollback()?
The DBAPI says yes but, as noted previously, the driver can choose to
NOT send a rollback. In fact on the second .close() the driver SHOULD
NOT send a rollback because there is no transaction in progress.

I'd vote for idempotent .close() interpretation too.

federico

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Federico Di Gregorio                                       fog at initd.org
              Una nazionale senza neanche una nazione. -- macchinavapore

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