Re: [SQL] Turn autocommit off ? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [SQL] Turn autocommit off ?
Date
Msg-id 199809171600.MAA01511@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Turn autocommit off ?  (Andreas Joppich <ajoppich@usa.net>)
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> Hi there !
>
> It has now happened several times that I wanted to rollback some
> changes (like update, delete,...) I made to some tables. And since I
> always forget to start a transaction, a simple ROLLBACK doesn't work
> because of that quiet annoying autocommit in psql.
>
> I'd like to have automatically started a transaction which explicitly
> must be termintated with commit or rollback.
>
> Is there a way to turn autocommit off ? If not, perhaps it could
> be a feature for the todo list ?
>
> I'm currently using the cvs from last sunday on linux 2.1.119.

Ingres does this.  I will add it to the TODO list.

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