Re: SET AUTOCOMMIT OFF

A.Bhattacharya@sungard.com wrote:
> Hi All,
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> I am new to Postgresql and I need to turn off the AUTO COMMIT in
> PostgreSQL 8.3.Can anyone guide me how to do it as SET AUTOCOMMIT = off;
> does not seem to be supported any more in PostgreSQL 8.3.

Just explicitly begin a transaction, like you do in most databases:

BEGIN;
INSERT ...
UPDATE ...
COMMIT;

Are you perhaps using PostgreSQL from JDBC or ODBC? If so, those client
interfaces provide their own ways to manage the "autocommit" setting -
which internally just tells the driver to create a transaction and not
commit it until you ask it to.

One thing to understand by the way: If you're not running a statement in
an explicit transaction, it just creates its own transaction when it
starts, runs, then commits automatically when it finishes. There's no
functional difference between:

BEGIN;
INSERT ...;
COMMIT;

and a stand-alone:

INSERT ...;


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Craig Ringer