Re: autocommit in 7.4

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > The issue I have is that every interface that relies on libpq is going
> > to have to code it itself.  Is that OK?
> 
> So?  Most interfaces have to adhere to their own notions of transaction
> semantics and control API anyway.  libpq should stay out of their way
> rather than try to be helpful.  I see this as not different from the
> lesson we learned that doing it in the backend isn't the right place.

I know Perl and jdbc do, but things like c++ and libpgeasy don't really
have a specification to follow.  With the ability to check the
transaction status, it might now be easy enough to do autocommit that
having it happen in every interfaces will be ok.

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