Re: autocommit vs TRUNCATE et al

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > One particularly nasty problem is issuing a VACUUM or TRUNCATE in cases
> > where you don't know the autocommit mode.  You could set autocommit to
> > 'on', and issue the command, but how do you know if you need to turn
> > autocommit back off again?
> 
> Perhaps RESET AUTOCOMMIT is a good enough answer?

I was unclear on that.  RESET sets it back to the postgresql.conf value,
right?  Do we know that the session didn't change it earlier in the
script?  That's where it gets tricky.

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