Kysely transactions

[roelandmoors]

I found out the hard way that transactions are not yet supported in Kysely/Vercel
Is this on the roadmap?
Maybe add something in the readme that transactions are not yet supported?

  beginTransaction(): Promise<void> {
    throw new VercelPostgresKyselyError(
      'kysely_transactions_not_supported',
      'Transactions are not supported yet.',
    );
  }

[emirotin]

Yeah, this was much unexpected, after I've invested some time into tailoring my code to run with Vercel serverless functions and Vercel PG

[vvo]

Hey @roelandmoors and @emirotin have you tried to use the original transaction example from Kysely as seen here: https://kysely.dev/docs/examples/transactions/simple-transaction? Let me know how it goes

[emirotin]

@vvo nope, instantly switched to another PG provider, transactions are crucial for my use-case

[roelandmoors]

Sorry, I don't remember. I'm using a different stack now.
But how could it work if it is not implemented? (kysely_transactions_not_supported)

[vvo]

Sorry, I don't remember. I'm using a different stack now.

Well I am just wondering if this was the right method (beginTransaction) to use versus the current kysely documentation which says to use .transaction. i.e. it might just works nowadays.

Closing, let's wait for someone else to come about this.

[emirotin]

@vvo pretty sure I was following the Kysely docs, I believe beginTransaction is being called by the transaction method

[jswent]

Is there still nothing done on this? This library is essentially useless to me if transactions are not supported.

@emirotin what provider did you switch to for Vercel PG?

[emirotin]

It was claimed that it should work https://x.com/cramforce/status/1713185661996707987?s=20, yet my followup Q was unanswered. I switched to fly.io, works nicely so far.

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[wskidmore]

Adding another voice to the "vercel storage is a non-starter" as transactions are a necessity. It is such an unwelcome surprise after moving everything to vercel then blam, not supported, go find a different db provider.

The messages above about beginTransaction vs transaction doesnt really track as transaction calls beginTransaction AND vercel throws the same error that transactions are not supported when attempting either.

Vercel states that its because Neon doesnt support transactions.. but they do. And the un-official but still sorta official kysely adapter has them fully implemented: https://github.com/seveibar/kysely-neon/blob/main/src/neon-dialect.ts#L75