Checked the following locations:
* Model.save(): If there are parents involved, take the safe way and use
transactions since this should be an all or nothing operation.
If the model has no parents:
* Signals are executed before and after the previous existing
transaction -- they were never been part of the transaction.
* if `force_insert` is set then only one query is executed -> atomic
by definition and no transaction needed.
* same applies to `force_update`.
* If a primary key is set and no `force_*` is set Django will try an
UPDATE and if that returns zero rows it tries an INSERT. The first
case is completly save (single query). In the second case a
transaction should not produce different results since the update
query is basically a no-op then (might miss something though).
* QuerySet.update(): no signals issued, single query -> no transaction
needed.
* Model/Collector.delete(): This one is fun due to the fact that is
does many things at once.
Most importantly though: It does send signals as part of the
transaction, so for maximum backwards compatibility we need to be
conservative.
To ensure maximum compatibility the transaction here is removed only
if the following holds true:
* A single instance is being deleted.
* There are no signal handlers attached to that instance.
* There are no deletions/updates to cascade.
* There are no parents which also need deletion.
This commits lifts the restriction that the outermost atomic block must
be declared with savepoint=False. This restriction was overly cautious.
The logic that makes it safe not to create savepoints for inner blocks
also applies to the outermost block when autocommit is disabled and a
transaction is already active.
This makes it possible to use the ORM after set_autocommit(False).
Previously it didn't work because ORM write operations are protected
with atomic(savepoint=False).
This commit touchs various parts of the code base and test framework. Any
found usage of opening a cursor for the sake of initializing a connection
has been replaced with 'ensure_connection()'.
Squashed commit of the following:
commit 63ddb271a44df389b2c302e421fc17b7f0529755
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Sep 29 22:51:00 2013 +0200
Clarified interactions between atomic and exceptions.
commit 2899ec299228217c876ba3aa4024e523a41c8504
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Sep 22 22:45:32 2013 +0200
Fixed TransactionManagementError in tests.
Previous commit introduced an additional check to prevent running
queries in transactions that will be rolled back, which triggered a few
failures in the tests. In practice using transaction.atomic instead of
the low-level savepoint APIs was enough to fix the problems.
commit 4a639b059ea80aeb78f7f160a7d4b9f609b9c238
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Tue Sep 24 22:24:17 2013 +0200
Allowed nesting constraint_checks_disabled inside atomic.
Since MySQL handles transactions loosely, this isn't a problem.
commit 2a4ab1cb6e83391ff7e25d08479e230ca564bfef
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sat Sep 21 18:43:12 2013 +0200
Prevented running queries in transactions that will be rolled back.
This avoids a counter-intuitive behavior in an edge case on databases
with non-atomic transaction semantics.
It prevents using savepoint_rollback() inside an atomic block without
calling set_rollback(False) first, which is backwards-incompatible in
tests.
Refs #21134.
commit 8e3db393853c7ac64a445b66e57f3620a3fde7b0
Author: Aymeric Augustin <aymeric.augustin@m4x.org>
Date: Sun Sep 22 22:14:17 2013 +0200
Replaced manual savepoints by atomic blocks.
This ensures the rollback flag is handled consistently in internal APIs.
This is useful:
- to force a rollback on the exit of an atomic block without having to
raise and catch an exception;
- to prevent a rollback after handling an exception manually.
Thanks Anssi for haggling until I implemented this.
This change alleviates the need for atomic_if_autocommit. When
autocommit is disabled for a database, atomic will simply create and
release savepoints, and not commit anything. This honors the contract of
not doing any transaction management.
This change also makes the hack to allow using atomic within the legacy
transaction management redundant.
None of the above will work with SQLite, because of a flaw in the design
of the sqlite3 library. This is a known limitation that cannot be lifted
without unacceptable side effects eg. triggering arbitrary commits.
There were a couple of errors in ._dirty flag handling:
* It started as None, but was never reset to None.
* The _dirty flag was sometimes used to indicate if the connection
was inside transaction management, but this was not done
consistently. This also meant the flag had three separate values.
* The None value had a special meaning, causing for example inability
to commit() on new connection unless enter/leave tx management was
done.
* The _dirty was tracking "connection in transaction" state, but only
in managed transactions.
* Some tests never reset the transaction state of the used connection.
* And some additional less important changes.
This commit has some potential for regressions, but as the above list
shows, the current situation isn't perfect either.
