Re: SET autocommit begins transaction?

Rod Taylor wrote:
> > > What about that doesn't make sense?  Having SET begin a transaction
> > > seems like a gross violation of POLS and likely to contradict the spec
> > > and cause problems with many applications.  -sc
> >
> > I think we left the standard when we made SET rollbackable.  Maybe that
> > has to be reopened because if we did that, it would make perfect sense
> > because all SETs would be outside transactions.
>
> Of course, the reason they're rollbackable is:
>
> begin;
> create schema newschema;
> set search_path = newschema;
> rollback;
>
> create table junk;  -- DOH!

And:

    set statement_timeout = 20;
    query_with_error;
    set statement_timeout = 0;
    COMMIT;

That will have to change in autocommit off to:

    BEGIN;
    SET statement_timeout = 20;
    query_with_error;
    SET statement_timeout = 0;
    COMMIT;

I assume that BEGIN does start a transaction.  With no BEGIN above, the
big problem is that it will work most of the time, but when/if the query
fails, they will find out they forgot the BEGIN.

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