Re: turn off auto-commit

Bj�rn Lundin wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Waruna Geekiyanage wrote:
> >> Does turn fsync off equivalent to turn autocommit off?
> >
> > No, fsync is related to flushing information to disk. It doesn't relate
> > to autocommit.
> >
> This auto-commit on/off, is this what I think it is;
> a way off NOT needing to enclose several statements in a begin/commit,
> but having a new transaction directly after a commit, in psql, like
> Oracle's sql*plus?
>
> If so, in what version was this introduced, or is this mentioned somewhere
> on the web?

Yes, autocommit appears in 7.3, due out in a few months.

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