Re: [INTERFACES] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > What if folks want all their connections autocommit off.
> 
> For interactive use, people can record their preferred setting in
> ~/.psqlrc or something like that.

But that only works for psql, right?  How would this be done at the
libpq level?  Environment variables?  GUC seems a whole lot cleaner.

> But any non-interactive program is written with a specific autocommit
> setting in mind.  Either it assumes that single statements are
> automatically committed or it issues explicit COMMIT commands.  That
> means, the choice of autocommit mode is always ultimately determined by
> the client, never by the server or its administrator.
> 
> For that very reason most standard interfaces define in their
> specification whether applications must assume autocommit behavior or must
> not do so.

I understand.  I just don't see any value in pushing that logic into
each client when we can do it centrally in the server.

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