Re: Re: PostgreSQL and PHP persistent connections

> > > How is that an improvement?  It only changes the case in which you get
> > > a NOTICE from not-in-transaction to in-transaction ...
> >
> > Well, the most common case is that you are not in a transaction.
> 
>     Why   not   tracing  PQcmdStatus(result)  on  the  persistent
>     connection?  It  allways   returns   "BEGIN",   "COMMIT"   or
>     "ROLLBACK" for whatever you issued.
> 
>     Well,  it'll  not  catch the uncommon case that someone might
>     issue  multiple  queries   in   one   statements   (semicolon
>     separated). But that's IMHO bad practice anyway and the above
>     will avoid communication, context switching and eating up  of
>     XID's until we have silent rollback in 7.2.

It is the multi-command issue that prevented me from suggesting checking
the return status.  If they are leaving an open transaction after
disconnecting, they could be doing any crazy thing.

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