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MediaWiki::RestInPeace not called if exception thrown, including ErrorPageError subclasses, resulting in db writes being thrown away
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Description

I noticed I was getting "Notice: Uncommitted DB writes (transaction from DatabaseBase::query (TranslatablePage::getTranslatablePages)). in /var/www/w/git/includes/db/Database.php on line 4118" when viewing Special:Preferences (locally) when not logged in.

Steps to reproduce:
*Have DBO_TRX or DBO_DEFAULT (assuming from web request) on. [This is default]
*Do some write query not currently in a transaction, so it gets an automatic transaction
*Later on, throw an exception such as: throw new UserNotLoggedIn();

Expected behaviour:
*Automatic transaction gets committed at end of requestion (e.g. MediaWiki::restInPeace() calls $factory->commitMasterChanges();).

Actual behaviour:
*Request ends without doing the load balancer shutdown stuff. As a result, the current (implicit) transaction is lost.

The actual behaviour (throwing away the transaction) may make sense for normal exceptions, but for error page exceptions I don't think it does, especially when the transaction is implicit instead of explicit.

[Probably not a super problematic bug, since exception error pages tend to only write caching related things to the db, if they write anything at all, but it does seem incorrect behaviour with the potential for subtle bugs]


Version: 1.23.0
Severity: normal

Details

Reference
bz62091

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:06 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz62091.
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Change 116625 had a related patch set uploaded by Aaron Schulz:
Commit DB changes as normal on exception-based GUI errors

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/116625

Change 116625 had a related patch set uploaded by Anomie:
Commit DB changes as normal on exception-based GUI errors

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/116625

Change 116625 merged by jenkins-bot:
Commit DB changes as normal on exception-based GUI errors

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/116625