On Sep 14, 2011, at 12:56 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > No. What I am saying is, the begin() is optional. If you look at my example, > if PostgreSQL is in autocommit mode, the only way to start a transaction is > to execute a query to start the transaction (BEGIN or START TRANSACTION). > From a, "it would be nice if" perspective, I would like to have the option of > using .begin() to start a transaction. That seems to jive better with proper > coding. >
"proper" on postgresql sure. On Oracle, there is no BEGIN. I like that the DBAPI tries to simplify this disconnect with a consistent, moderately coarse-grained facade rather than confusing users and burdening DBAPI authors with two ways to do it. _______________________________________________ DB-SIG maillist - DB-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/db-sig
