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The ticket was originally about two failing tests, which are fixed by putting their queries in transactions. Thanks Tim Graham for the report, Aymeric Augustin for the fix, and Simon Charette, Tim Graham & Loïc Bistuer for review. Backport of b990df1d63 from master
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Database transactions
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=====================
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.. module:: django.db.transaction
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Django gives you a few ways to control how database transactions are managed.
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Managing database transactions
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==============================
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Django's default transaction behavior
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-------------------------------------
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Django's default behavior is to run in autocommit mode. Each query is
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immediately committed to the database, unless a transaction is active.
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:ref:`See below for details <autocommit-details>`.
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Django uses transactions or savepoints automatically to guarantee the
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integrity of ORM operations that require multiple queries, especially
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:ref:`delete() <topics-db-queries-delete>` and :ref:`update()
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<topics-db-queries-update>` queries.
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Django's :class:`~django.test.TestCase` class also wraps each test in a
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transaction for performance reasons.
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.. versionchanged:: 1.6
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Previous version of Django featured :ref:`a more complicated default
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behavior <transactions-upgrading-from-1.5>`.
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.. _tying-transactions-to-http-requests:
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Tying transactions to HTTP requests
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-----------------------------------
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A common way to handle transactions on the web is to wrap each request in a
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transaction. Set :setting:`ATOMIC_REQUESTS <DATABASE-ATOMIC_REQUESTS>` to
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``True`` in the configuration of each database for which you want to enable
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this behavior.
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It works like this. Before calling a view function, Django starts a
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transaction. If the response is produced without problems, Django commits the
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transaction. If the view produces an exception, Django rolls back the
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transaction.
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You may perform partial commits and rollbacks in your view code, typically with
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the :func:`atomic` context manager. However, at the end of the view, either
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all the changes will be committed, or none of them.
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.. warning::
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While the simplicity of this transaction model is appealing, it also makes it
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inefficient when traffic increases. Opening a transaction for every view has
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some overhead. The impact on performance depends on the query patterns of your
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application and on how well your database handles locking.
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.. admonition:: Per-request transactions and streaming responses
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When a view returns a :class:`~django.http.StreamingHttpResponse`, reading
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the contents of the response will often execute code to generate the
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content. Since the view has already returned, such code runs outside of
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the transaction.
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Generally speaking, it isn't advisable to write to the database while
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generating a streaming response, since there's no sensible way to handle
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errors after starting to send the response.
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In practice, this feature simply wraps every view function in the :func:`atomic`
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decorator described below.
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Note that only the execution of your view is enclosed in the transactions.
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Middleware runs outside of the transaction, and so does the rendering of
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template responses.
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When :setting:`ATOMIC_REQUESTS <DATABASE-ATOMIC_REQUESTS>` is enabled, it's
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still possible to prevent views from running in a transaction.
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.. function:: non_atomic_requests(using=None)
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This decorator will negate the effect of :setting:`ATOMIC_REQUESTS
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<DATABASE-ATOMIC_REQUESTS>` for a given view::
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from django.db import transaction
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@transaction.non_atomic_requests
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def my_view(request):
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do_stuff()
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@transaction.non_atomic_requests(using='other')
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def my_other_view(request):
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do_stuff_on_the_other_database()
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It only works if it's applied to the view itself.
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.. versionchanged:: 1.6
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Django used to provide this feature via ``TransactionMiddleware``, which is
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now deprecated.
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Controlling transactions explicitly
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-----------------------------------
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.. versionadded:: 1.6
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Django provides a single API to control database transactions.
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.. function:: atomic(using=None, savepoint=True)
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Atomicity is the defining property of database transactions. ``atomic``
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allows us to create a block of code within which the atomicity on the
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database is guaranteed. If the block of code is successfully completed, the
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changes are committed to the database. If there is an exception, the
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changes are rolled back.
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``atomic`` blocks can be nested. In this case, when an inner block
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completes successfully, its effects can still be rolled back if an
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exception is raised in the outer block at a later point.
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``atomic`` is usable both as a `decorator`_::
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from django.db import transaction
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@transaction.atomic
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def viewfunc(request):
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# This code executes inside a transaction.
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do_stuff()
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and as a `context manager`_::
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from django.db import transaction
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def viewfunc(request):
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# This code executes in autocommit mode (Django's default).
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do_stuff()
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with transaction.atomic():
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# This code executes inside a transaction.
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do_more_stuff()
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.. _decorator: http://docs.python.org/glossary.html#term-decorator
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.. _context manager: http://docs.python.org/glossary.html#term-context-manager
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Wrapping ``atomic`` in a try/except block allows for natural handling of
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integrity errors::
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from django.db import IntegrityError, transaction
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@transaction.atomic
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def viewfunc(request):
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create_parent()
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try:
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with transaction.atomic():
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generate_relationships()
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except IntegrityError:
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handle_exception()
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add_children()
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In this example, even if ``generate_relationships()`` causes a database
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error by breaking an integrity constraint, you can execute queries in
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``add_children()``, and the changes from ``create_parent()`` are still
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there. Note that any operations attempted in ``generate_relationships()``
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will already have been rolled back safely when ``handle_exception()`` is
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called, so the exception handler can also operate on the database if
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necessary.
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.. admonition:: Avoid catching exceptions inside ``atomic``!
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When exiting an ``atomic`` block, Django looks at whether it's exited
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normally or with an exception to determine whether to commit or roll
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back. If you catch and handle exceptions inside an ``atomic`` block,
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you may hide from Django the fact that a problem has happened. This
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can result in unexpected behavior.
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This is mostly a concern for :exc:`~django.db.DatabaseError` and its
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subclasses such as :exc:`~django.db.IntegrityError`. After such an
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error, the transaction is broken and Django will perform a rollback at
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the end of the ``atomic`` block. If you attempt to run database
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queries before the rollback happens, Django will raise a
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:class:`~django.db.transaction.TransactionManagementError`. You may
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also encounter this behavior when an ORM-related signal handler raises
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an exception.
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The correct way to catch database errors is around an ``atomic`` block
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as shown above. If necessary, add an extra ``atomic`` block for this
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purpose. This pattern has another advantage: it delimits explicitly
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which operations will be rolled back if an exception occurs.
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If you catch exceptions raised by raw SQL queries, Django's behavior
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is unspecified and database-dependent.
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In order to guarantee atomicity, ``atomic`` disables some APIs. Attempting
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to commit, roll back, or change the autocommit state of the database
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connection within an ``atomic`` block will raise an exception.
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``atomic`` takes a ``using`` argument which should be the name of a
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database. If this argument isn't provided, Django uses the ``"default"``
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database.
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Under the hood, Django's transaction management code:
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- opens a transaction when entering the outermost ``atomic`` block;
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- creates a savepoint when entering an inner ``atomic`` block;
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- releases or rolls back to the savepoint when exiting an inner block;
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- commits or rolls back the transaction when exiting the outermost block.
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You can disable the creation of savepoints for inner blocks by setting the
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``savepoint`` argument to ``False``. If an exception occurs, Django will
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perform the rollback when exiting the first parent block with a savepoint
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if there is one, and the outermost block otherwise. Atomicity is still
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guaranteed by the outer transaction. This option should only be used if
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the overhead of savepoints is noticeable. It has the drawback of breaking
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the error handling described above.
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You may use ``atomic`` when autocommit is turned off. It will only use
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savepoints, even for the outermost block, and it will raise an exception
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if the outermost block is declared with ``savepoint=False``.
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.. admonition:: Performance considerations
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Open transactions have a performance cost for your database server. To
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minimize this overhead, keep your transactions as short as possible. This
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is especially important of you're using :func:`atomic` in long-running
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processes, outside of Django's request / response cycle.
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Autocommit
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.. _autocommit-details:
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Why Django uses autocommit
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In the SQL standards, each SQL query starts a transaction, unless one is
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already active. Such transactions must then be explicitly committed or rolled
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back.
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This isn't always convenient for application developers. To alleviate this
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problem, most databases provide an autocommit mode. When autocommit is turned
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on and no transaction is active, each SQL query gets wrapped in its own
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transaction. In other words, not only does each such query start a
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transaction, but the transaction also gets automatically committed or rolled
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back, depending on whether the query succeeded.
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:pep:`249`, the Python Database API Specification v2.0, requires autocommit to
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be initially turned off. Django overrides this default and turns autocommit
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on.
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To avoid this, you can :ref:`deactivate the transaction management
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<deactivate-transaction-management>`, but it isn't recommended.
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.. versionchanged:: 1.6
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Before Django 1.6, autocommit was turned off, and it was emulated by
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forcing a commit after write operations in the ORM.
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.. _deactivate-transaction-management:
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Deactivating transaction management
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-----------------------------------
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You can totally disable Django's transaction management for a given database
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by setting :setting:`AUTOCOMMIT <DATABASE-AUTOCOMMIT>` to ``False`` in its
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configuration. If you do this, Django won't enable autocommit, and won't
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perform any commits. You'll get the regular behavior of the underlying
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database library.
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This requires you to commit explicitly every transaction, even those started
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by Django or by third-party libraries. Thus, this is best used in situations
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where you want to run your own transaction-controlling middleware or do
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something really strange.
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.. versionchanged:: 1.6
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This used to be controlled by the ``TRANSACTIONS_MANAGED`` setting.
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Low-level APIs
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==============
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.. warning::
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Always prefer :func:`atomic` if possible at all. It accounts for the
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idiosyncrasies of each database and prevents invalid operations.
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The low level APIs are only useful if you're implementing your own
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transaction management.
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.. _managing-autocommit:
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Autocommit
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----------
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.. versionadded:: 1.6
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Django provides a straightforward API in the :mod:`django.db.transaction`
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module to manage the autocommit state of each database connection.
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.. function:: get_autocommit(using=None)
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.. function:: set_autocommit(autocommit, using=None)
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These functions take a ``using`` argument which should be the name of a
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database. If it isn't provided, Django uses the ``"default"`` database.
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Autocommit is initially turned on. If you turn it off, it's your
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responsibility to restore it.
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Once you turn autocommit off, you get the default behavior of your database
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adapter, and Django won't help you. Although that behavior is specified in
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:pep:`249`, implementations of adapters aren't always consistent with one
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another. Review the documentation of the adapter you're using carefully.
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You must ensure that no transaction is active, usually by issuing a
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:func:`commit` or a :func:`rollback`, before turning autocommit back on.
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Django will refuse to turn autocommit off when an :func:`atomic` block is
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active, because that would break atomicity.
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Transactions
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------------
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A transaction is an atomic set of database queries. Even if your program
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crashes, the database guarantees that either all the changes will be applied,
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or none of them.
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Django doesn't provide an API to start a transaction. The expected way to
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start a transaction is to disable autocommit with :func:`set_autocommit`.
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Once you're in a transaction, you can choose either to apply the changes
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you've performed until this point with :func:`commit`, or to cancel them with
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:func:`rollback`. These functions are defined in :mod:`django.db.transaction`.
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.. function:: commit(using=None)
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.. function:: rollback(using=None)
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These functions take a ``using`` argument which should be the name of a
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database. If it isn't provided, Django uses the ``"default"`` database.
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Django will refuse to commit or to rollback when an :func:`atomic` block is
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active, because that would break atomicity.
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.. _topics-db-transactions-savepoints:
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Savepoints
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----------
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A savepoint is a marker within a transaction that enables you to roll back
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part of a transaction, rather than the full transaction. Savepoints are
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available with the SQLite (≥ 3.6.8), PostgreSQL, Oracle and MySQL (when using
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the InnoDB storage engine) backends. Other backends provide the savepoint
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functions, but they're empty operations -- they don't actually do anything.
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Savepoints aren't especially useful if you are using autocommit, the default
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behavior of Django. However, once you open a transaction with :func:`atomic`,
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you build up a series of database operations awaiting a commit or rollback. If
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you issue a rollback, the entire transaction is rolled back. Savepoints
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provide the ability to perform a fine-grained rollback, rather than the full
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rollback that would be performed by ``transaction.rollback()``.
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.. versionchanged:: 1.6
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When the :func:`atomic` decorator is nested, it creates a savepoint to allow
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partial commit or rollback. You're strongly encouraged to use :func:`atomic`
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rather than the functions described below, but they're still part of the
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public API, and there's no plan to deprecate them.
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Each of these functions takes a ``using`` argument which should be the name of
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a database for which the behavior applies. If no ``using`` argument is
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provided then the ``"default"`` database is used.
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Savepoints are controlled by three functions in :mod:`django.db.transaction`:
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.. function:: savepoint(using=None)
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Creates a new savepoint. This marks a point in the transaction that is
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known to be in a "good" state. Returns the savepoint ID (``sid``).
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.. function:: savepoint_commit(sid, using=None)
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Releases savepoint ``sid``. The changes performed since the savepoint was
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created become part of the transaction.
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.. function:: savepoint_rollback(sid, using=None)
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Rolls back the transaction to savepoint ``sid``.
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These functions do nothing if savepoints aren't supported or if the database
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is in autocommit mode.
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In addition, there's a utility function:
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.. function:: clean_savepoints(using=None)
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Resets the counter used to generate unique savepoint IDs.
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The following example demonstrates the use of savepoints::
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from django.db import transaction
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# open a transaction
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@transaction.atomic
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def viewfunc(request):
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a.save()
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# transaction now contains a.save()
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sid = transaction.savepoint()
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b.save()
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# transaction now contains a.save() and b.save()
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if want_to_keep_b:
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transaction.savepoint_commit(sid)
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# open transaction still contains a.save() and b.save()
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else:
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transaction.savepoint_rollback(sid)
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# open transaction now contains only a.save()
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.. versionadded:: 1.6
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Savepoints may be used to recover from a database error by performing a partial
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rollback. If you're doing this inside an :func:`atomic` block, the entire block
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will still be rolled back, because it doesn't know you've handled the situation
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at a lower level! To prevent this, you can control the rollback behavior with
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the following functions.
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.. function:: get_rollback(using=None)
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.. function:: set_rollback(rollback, using=None)
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Setting the rollback flag to ``True`` forces a rollback when exiting the
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innermost atomic block. This may be useful to trigger a rollback without
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raising an exception.
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Setting it to ``False`` prevents such a rollback. Before doing that, make sure
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you've rolled back the transaction to a known-good savepoint within the current
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atomic block! Otherwise you're breaking atomicity and data corruption may
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occur.
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Database-specific notes
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=======================
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.. _savepoints-in-sqlite:
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Savepoints in SQLite
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--------------------
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While SQLite ≥ 3.6.8 supports savepoints, a flaw in the design of the
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:mod:`sqlite3` module makes them hardly usable.
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When autocommit is enabled, savepoints don't make sense. When it's disabled,
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:mod:`sqlite3` commits implicitly before savepoint statements. (In fact, it
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commits before any statement other than ``SELECT``, ``INSERT``, ``UPDATE``,
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``DELETE`` and ``REPLACE``.) This bug has two consequences:
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- The low level APIs for savepoints are only usable inside a transaction ie.
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inside an :func:`atomic` block.
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- It's impossible to use :func:`atomic` when autocommit is turned off.
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Transactions in MySQL
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---------------------
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If you're using MySQL, your tables may or may not support transactions; it
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depends on your MySQL version and the table types you're using. (By
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"table types," we mean something like "InnoDB" or "MyISAM".) MySQL transaction
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peculiarities are outside the scope of this article, but the MySQL site has
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`information on MySQL transactions`_.
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If your MySQL setup does *not* support transactions, then Django will always
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function in autocommit mode: statements will be executed and committed as soon
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as they're called. If your MySQL setup *does* support transactions, Django
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will handle transactions as explained in this document.
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.. _information on MySQL transactions: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/sql-syntax-transactions.html
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Handling exceptions within PostgreSQL transactions
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--------------------------------------------------
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.. note::
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This section is relevant only if you're implementing your own transaction
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management. This problem cannot occur in Django's default mode and
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:func:`atomic` handles it automatically.
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Inside a transaction, when a call to a PostgreSQL cursor raises an exception
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(typically ``IntegrityError``), all subsequent SQL in the same transaction
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will fail with the error "current transaction is aborted, queries ignored
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until end of transaction block". Whilst simple use of ``save()`` is unlikely
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to raise an exception in PostgreSQL, there are more advanced usage patterns
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which might, such as saving objects with unique fields, saving using the
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force_insert/force_update flag, or invoking custom SQL.
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There are several ways to recover from this sort of error.
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Transaction rollback
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The first option is to roll back the entire transaction. For example::
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a.save() # Succeeds, but may be undone by transaction rollback
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try:
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b.save() # Could throw exception
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except IntegrityError:
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transaction.rollback()
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c.save() # Succeeds, but a.save() may have been undone
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Calling ``transaction.rollback()`` rolls back the entire transaction. Any
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uncommitted database operations will be lost. In this example, the changes
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made by ``a.save()`` would be lost, even though that operation raised no error
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itself.
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Savepoint rollback
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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You can use :ref:`savepoints <topics-db-transactions-savepoints>` to control
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the extent of a rollback. Before performing a database operation that could
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fail, you can set or update the savepoint; that way, if the operation fails,
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you can roll back the single offending operation, rather than the entire
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transaction. For example::
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a.save() # Succeeds, and never undone by savepoint rollback
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try:
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sid = transaction.savepoint()
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b.save() # Could throw exception
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transaction.savepoint_commit(sid)
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except IntegrityError:
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transaction.savepoint_rollback(sid)
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c.save() # Succeeds, and a.save() is never undone
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In this example, ``a.save()`` will not be undone in the case where
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``b.save()`` raises an exception.
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.. _transactions-upgrading-from-1.5:
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Changes from Django 1.5 and earlier
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===================================
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The features described below were deprecated in Django 1.6 and will be removed
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in Django 1.8. They're documented in order to ease the migration to the new
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transaction management APIs.
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Legacy APIs
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-----------
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The following functions, defined in ``django.db.transaction``, provided a way
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to control transactions on a per-function or per-code-block basis. They could
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be used as decorators or as context managers, and they accepted a ``using``
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argument, exactly like :func:`atomic`.
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.. function:: autocommit
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Enable Django's default autocommit behavior.
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Transactions will be committed as soon as you call ``model.save()``,
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``model.delete()``, or any other function that writes to the database.
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.. function:: commit_on_success
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Use a single transaction for all the work done in a function.
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If the function returns successfully, then Django will commit all work done
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within the function at that point. If the function raises an exception,
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though, Django will roll back the transaction.
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.. function:: commit_manually
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Tells Django you'll be managing the transaction on your own.
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Whether you are writing or simply reading from the database, you must
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``commit()`` or ``rollback()`` explicitly or Django will raise a
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:exc:`TransactionManagementError` exception. This is required when reading
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from the database because ``SELECT`` statements may call functions which
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modify tables, and thus it is impossible to know if any data has been
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modified.
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.. _transaction-states:
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Transaction states
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------------------
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The three functions described above relied on a concept called "transaction
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states". This mechanism was deprecated in Django 1.6, but it's still available
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until Django 1.8.
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At any time, each database connection is in one of these two states:
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- **auto mode**: autocommit is enabled;
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- **managed mode**: autocommit is disabled.
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Django starts in auto mode. ``TransactionMiddleware``,
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:func:`commit_on_success` and :func:`commit_manually` activate managed mode;
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:func:`autocommit` activates auto mode.
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Internally, Django keeps a stack of states. Activations and deactivations must
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be balanced.
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For example, :func:`commit_on_success` switches to managed mode when entering
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the block of code it controls; when exiting the block, it commits or
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rollbacks, and switches back to auto mode.
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So :func:`commit_on_success` really has two effects: it changes the
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transaction state and it defines an transaction block. Nesting will give the
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|
expected results in terms of transaction state, but not in terms of
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transaction semantics. Most often, the inner block will commit, breaking the
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|
atomicity of the outer block.
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:func:`autocommit` and :func:`commit_manually` have similar limitations.
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API changes
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-----------
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Transaction middleware
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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In Django 1.6, ``TransactionMiddleware`` is deprecated and replaced by
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:setting:`ATOMIC_REQUESTS <DATABASE-ATOMIC_REQUESTS>`. While the general
|
|
behavior is the same, there are two differences.
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With the previous API, it was possible to switch to autocommit or to commit
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|
explicitly anywhere inside a view. Since :setting:`ATOMIC_REQUESTS
|
|
<DATABASE-ATOMIC_REQUESTS>` relies on :func:`atomic` which enforces atomicity,
|
|
this isn't allowed any longer. However, at the top level, it's still possible
|
|
to avoid wrapping an entire view in a transaction. To achieve this, decorate
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|
the view with :func:`non_atomic_requests` instead of :func:`autocommit`.
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|
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|
The transaction middleware applied not only to view functions, but also to
|
|
middleware modules that came after it. For instance, if you used the session
|
|
middleware after the transaction middleware, session creation was part of the
|
|
transaction. :setting:`ATOMIC_REQUESTS <DATABASE-ATOMIC_REQUESTS>` only
|
|
applies to the view itself.
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|
Managing transactions
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|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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|
|
|
Starting with Django 1.6, :func:`atomic` is the only supported API for
|
|
defining a transaction. Unlike the deprecated APIs, it's nestable and always
|
|
guarantees atomicity.
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|
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|
In most cases, it will be a drop-in replacement for :func:`commit_on_success`.
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|
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|
During the deprecation period, it's possible to use :func:`atomic` within
|
|
:func:`autocommit`, :func:`commit_on_success` or :func:`commit_manually`.
|
|
However, the reverse is forbidden, because nesting the old decorators /
|
|
context managers breaks atomicity.
|
|
|
|
Managing autocommit
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|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
Django 1.6 introduces an explicit :ref:`API for managing autocommit
|
|
<managing-autocommit>`.
|
|
|
|
To disable autocommit temporarily, instead of::
|
|
|
|
with transaction.commit_manually():
|
|
# do stuff
|
|
|
|
you should now use::
|
|
|
|
transaction.set_autocommit(False)
|
|
try:
|
|
# do stuff
|
|
finally:
|
|
transaction.set_autocommit(True)
|
|
|
|
To enable autocommit temporarily, instead of::
|
|
|
|
with transaction.autocommit():
|
|
# do stuff
|
|
|
|
you should now use::
|
|
|
|
transaction.set_autocommit(True)
|
|
try:
|
|
# do stuff
|
|
finally:
|
|
transaction.set_autocommit(False)
|
|
|
|
Unless you're implementing a transaction management framework, you shouldn't
|
|
ever need to do this.
|
|
|
|
Disabling transaction management
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
Instead of setting ``TRANSACTIONS_MANAGED = True``, set the ``AUTOCOMMIT`` key
|
|
to ``False`` in the configuration of each database, as explained in
|
|
:ref:`deactivate-transaction-management`.
|
|
|
|
Backwards incompatibilities
|
|
---------------------------
|
|
|
|
Since version 1.6, Django uses database-level autocommit in auto mode.
|
|
Previously, it implemented application-level autocommit by triggering a commit
|
|
after each ORM write.
|
|
|
|
As a consequence, each database query (for instance, an ORM read) started a
|
|
transaction that lasted until the next ORM write. Such "automatic
|
|
transactions" no longer exist in Django 1.6.
|
|
|
|
There are four known scenarios where this is backwards-incompatible.
|
|
|
|
Note that managed mode isn't affected at all. This section assumes auto mode.
|
|
See the :ref:`description of modes <transaction-states>` above.
|
|
|
|
Sequences of custom SQL queries
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
If you're executing several :ref:`custom SQL queries <executing-custom-sql>`
|
|
in a row, each one now runs in its own transaction, instead of sharing the
|
|
same "automatic transaction". If you need to enforce atomicity, you must wrap
|
|
the sequence of queries in :func:`atomic`.
|
|
|
|
To check for this problem, look for calls to ``cursor.execute()``. They're
|
|
usually followed by a call to ``transaction.commit_unless_managed()``, which
|
|
isn't useful any more and should be removed.
|
|
|
|
Select for update
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
If you were relying on "automatic transactions" to provide locking between
|
|
:meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.select_for_update` and a subsequent
|
|
write operation — an extremely fragile design, but nonetheless possible — you
|
|
must wrap the relevant code in :func:`atomic`. Since Django 1.6.3, executing
|
|
a query with :meth:`~django.db.models.query.QuerySet.select_for_update` in
|
|
autocommit mode will raise a
|
|
:exc:`~django.db.transaction.TransactionManagementError`.
|
|
|
|
Using a high isolation level
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
If you were using the "repeatable read" isolation level or higher, and if you
|
|
relied on "automatic transactions" to guarantee consistency between successive
|
|
reads, the new behavior might be backwards-incompatible. To enforce
|
|
consistency, you must wrap such sequences in :func:`atomic`.
|
|
|
|
MySQL defaults to "repeatable read" and SQLite to "serializable"; they may be
|
|
affected by this problem.
|
|
|
|
At the "read committed" isolation level or lower, "automatic transactions"
|
|
have no effect on the semantics of any sequence of ORM operations.
|
|
|
|
PostgreSQL and Oracle default to "read committed" and aren't affected, unless
|
|
you changed the isolation level.
|
|
|
|
Using unsupported database features
|
|
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
|
|
|
|
With triggers, views, or functions, it's possible to make ORM reads result in
|
|
database modifications. Django 1.5 and earlier doesn't deal with this case and
|
|
it's theoretically possible to observe a different behavior after upgrading to
|
|
Django 1.6 or later. In doubt, use :func:`atomic` to enforce integrity.
|