--- a/src/c/urweb.c	Mon Feb 24 09:10:31 2014 +0000
+++ b/src/c/urweb.c	Tue Apr 15 19:12:49 2014 -0400
@@ -3304,32 +3304,58 @@
         }
       }
 
+  if (ctx->transaction_started) {
+    int code = ctx->app->db_commit(ctx);
+
+    if (code) {
+      if (ctx->client)
+        release_client(ctx->client);
+
+      if (code == -1) {
+        // This case is for a serialization failure, which is not really an "error."
+        // The transaction will restart, so we should rollback any transactionals
+        // that triggered above.
+
+        for (i = ctx->used_transactionals-1; i >= 0; --i)
+          if (ctx->transactionals[i].rollback != NULL)
+            ctx->transactionals[i].rollback(ctx->transactionals[i].data);
+
+        for (i = ctx->used_transactionals-1; i >= 0; --i)
+          if (ctx->transactionals[i].free)
+            ctx->transactionals[i].free(ctx->transactionals[i].data, 1);
+
+	return 1;
+      }
+
+      for (i = ctx->used_transactionals-1; i >= 0; --i)
+        if (ctx->transactionals[i].free)
+          ctx->transactionals[i].free(ctx->transactionals[i].data, 0);
+
+      uw_set_error_message(ctx, "Error running SQL COMMIT");
+      return 0;
+    }
+  }
+
   for (i = ctx->used_transactionals-1; i >= 0; --i)
     if (ctx->transactionals[i].rollback == NULL)
       if (ctx->transactionals[i].commit) {
         ctx->transactionals[i].commit(ctx->transactionals[i].data);
         if (uw_has_error(ctx)) {
-          uw_rollback(ctx, 0);
+           if (ctx->client)
+             release_client(ctx->client);
+
+           for (i = ctx->used_transactionals-1; i >= 0; --i)
+             if (ctx->transactionals[i].rollback != NULL)
+               ctx->transactionals[i].rollback(ctx->transactionals[i].data);
+
+           for (i = ctx->used_transactionals-1; i >= 0; --i)
+             if (ctx->transactionals[i].free)
+               ctx->transactionals[i].free(ctx->transactionals[i].data, 0);
+
           return 0;
         }
       }
 
-  if (ctx->transaction_started) {
-    int code = ctx->app->db_commit(ctx);
-
-    if (code) {
-      if (code == -1)
-	return 1;
-
-      for (i = ctx->used_transactionals-1; i >= 0; --i)
-	if (ctx->transactionals[i].free)
-	  ctx->transactionals[i].free(ctx->transactionals[i].data, 0);
-
-      uw_set_error_message(ctx, "Error running SQL COMMIT");
-      return 0;
-    }
-  }
-
   for (i = 0; i < ctx->used_deltas; ++i) {
     delta *d = &ctx->deltas[i];
     client *c = find_client(d->client);