> Mike Mascari <mascarm@mascari.com> writes:
> > In fact, some could argue that the default behavior of PostgreSQL
> > should be changed (or at least have an option) to behave like
> > Oracle, where a transaction is implicitly begun at the first
> > encounter of an INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE - or in PostgreSQL's case, the
> > first submitted statement.
>
> If we put in an implicit BEGIN at the start of a connection, when
> does it get committed? We certainly dare not do an implicit COMMIT
> when the client disconnects, but without that the change would
> completely break a lot of existing applications.
>
> Personally I'm perfectly happy with the notion that clients who want
> this behavior can send a BEGIN for themselves ...
In Ingres, you typically do 'SET AUTOCOMMIT ON' and it says that way for
the rest of the session. GUC would have a default setting for
AUTOCOMMIT too.
There is no plan to change the default, just to allow people to modify
the default.
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