Re: SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF

sad wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 18:42, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>>Christoph Haller <ch@rodos.fzk.de> writes:
>>
>>>Please, could someone point me to the right list
>>>or tell me how to do a "SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF" within libpq.
>>
>>libpq does not have any support for that.
> 
> 
> Does this mean libpq calls always uncommited or commited ?

1. Connect
2. Issue "INSERT ..."
The insert will be committed.

1. Connect
2. Issue "INSERT...; UPDATE...; INSERT...;" in one PQexec
All 3 will be committed in one transaction

1. Connect
2. Issue "BEGIN"
3. Issue "INSERT..."
4. Issue "UPDATE..."
5. Issue "INSERT..."
6. etc
Until you issue COMMIT/ROLLBACK the transaction remains open.
If you had an error at step 3, then 4,5 would fail because the 
transaction would be aborted (but waiting for you to issue ROLLBACK).

I think that covers all the combinations.
--  Richard Huxton  Archonet Ltd