Re: psql + autocommit

I can see this is going nowhere fast! :)

I'd like to see a global setting that I could change, not one on a user
by user basis...

I'd also like a message in the Welcome banner telling me what the
current AUTOCOMMIT setting is...

John Sidney-Woollett

Peter Eisentraut wrote:

> John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
>
>>If a config switch was available for the build process that could
>>preserve the "old" behavior - it wouldn't really pose a problem for
>>existing users migrating their systems to v8 provided they set the
>>switch appropriately.
>
>
> Such a switch exists: you put \set AUTOCOMMIT in your psql configuration
> file.  We don't put feature-altering switches in the build process if
> we can help it.  Since most people use prebuilt binaries, such a switch
> would be mostly useless at best.
>