Barry,
Never mind.
Patch with 'begin;set autocommit to on;commit' work fine for JDBC spec.
regards,
Haris Peco
On Friday 11 October 2002 02:57 am, Barry Lind wrote:
> Did anything come of this discussion on whether SET initiates a
> transaction or not?
>
> In summary what is the right way to deal with setting autocommit in
> clients?
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [JDBC] Patch for handling "autocommit=false" in
> postgresql.conf Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:26:14 -0400
> From: Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: snpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> CC: pgsql-jdbc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> snpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > + // handle autocommit=false in postgresql.conf
> > + if (haveMinimumServerVersion("7.3")) {
> > + ExecSQL("set autocommit to on;
> > commit;"); + }
>
> The above will fill people's logs with
> WARNING: COMMIT: no transaction in progress
> if they don't have autocommit off.
>
> Use
> begin; set autocommit to on; commit;
> instead.
>
> I would recommend holding off on this patch altogether, actually,
> until we decide whether SET will be a transaction-initiating
> command or not. I would still like to persuade the hackers community
> that it should not be.
>
> regards, tom lane
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