Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> On 09/14/2011 10:25 AM, Michael Bayer wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Thus the "optional". Those that can make use of it can, those that don't
> don't need it or it will be silently ignored.
I find the following is more readable (explicit better then
implicit etc.):
connection = connect(dbname, uid, pwd)
# Regular user code:
... transactional code ...
# Experts only section:
try:
connection.autocommit = True
... non-transactional code ...
finally:
connection.autocommit = False
# Regular user code:
... transactional code ...
connection.commit()
You usually only need autocommit code in case you are dealing
with databases that cannot handle database definition SQL (DDL)
inside transactions (e.g. create/drop databases or tables),
if you have a need for atomic operations, or need to
avoid locking for some special reason.
In practice, it's often better to open a separate connection
in autocommit mode, than to switch modes on a single connection.
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