On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Stephen Kennedy wrote: You are all right .However i was talking about the writing shell scripts and running psql -c from it .THIS is a big problem if no autocommit is setted on since at the end of the psql -c command there is a disconnect and you have to add a commit to it BEFOR this disconnect.very unhandy . However i understood from Tom that this is solved in 7.4 , just not yet ready to switch to it from my 7.3 server. Thanks > Just a note to clarify sqlplus > > It does start in noautocommit as you say. > However, it issues a commit when you exit (with quit, Ctrl-D or whatever) > which is (in my opinion) incorrect, and very much worth taking into account > when writing scripts for Oracle. > I think it should automatically issue a rollback on exit. > > regards, > > Stephen. > > Radu-Adrian Popescu wrote: > > > Tsirkin Evgeny wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> commit to my shell scripts.I beleave that automatically > >> commiting the psql -c queries is very logical thing. > > > > > > I'm sure there are people who disagree with that statement. For > > instance Oracle's sqlplus starts in noautocommit by default. And I've > > found that to be a good thing actually. > > For what it's worth I also think default client policy may as well be > > left unchanged, or there will be a lot of baffled people. > > > > Regards, > > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend >
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