Jie Zhang wrote:
Yeah, I mean the disconnect should not commit if autocommit is set to 0.

In most of the case, this is not a problem because people probably do rollback and commit. Could you change oci code? Is it owned by Oracle?

From what I remember we did not make any change to OCI, we changed
how we used OCI. I'll have to look this up after the weekend.
This would suggest it is how DBD:oracle uses OCI.
If you don't hear anything early next week mail me personally to
remind me to look it up.

Martin

thanks,

Jie

Martin J. Evans wrote:

Jie Zhang wrote:

Tom and Martin,

Thank you both!
It is a bit counter intuitive.



If by that you mean that you expected disconnect with a commit to rollback the changes then I agree. We had an Oracle ODBC driver which used oci which did this and ended up changing it to NOT commit on disconnect because we (and more importantly our customers) believed it was just too dangerous.

Off the top of my head I can't remember how this was achieved in
OCI but it was.

Martin

Tom Schindl wrote:

Well I was already familiar with this behaviour because it's the same
with JDBC-Drivers.

Tom

Martin J. Evans wrote:
On 07-Apr-2006 Jie Zhang wrote:

Hi,

If I initiate a connection using autocommit=0 in DBI and I don't do a explicit connection->commit(), should transactions automatically commit after I do an explicit connection->disconnect()? I was expecting an automatica rollback. But the testing result is just the opposite.

For example:
my $databaseHandle = DBI->connect( "", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "$pass", {AutoCommit => 0}, "Oracle" )
deleteRecord;
$databaseHandle->disconnect();

Should the delete query be commited?

thanks,

Jie



According to the DBI docs:

          The transaction behaviour of the "disconnect" method
          is, sadly, undefined.  Some database systems (such as
          Oracle and Ingres) will automatically commit any out-
          standing changes, but others (such as Informix) will
          rollback any outstanding changes.  Applications not
          using "AutoCommit" should explicitly call "commit" or
          "rollback" before calling "disconnect".

I was a bit surprised to see the comment on Oracle automatically committing. I
believe there is a way to stop this happening at the oci level.

Martin
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