"Thomas G. Lockhart" wrote:
>
> > > No comments on this?
> > > I would like to make BEGIN implicit...
> > > Objections?
> > Informix requires BEGIN. Ingres does not, but has 'set autocommit'
> > mode, so each SQL statement is its own transaction, like we have now.
>
> imho we should have an Ingres-like feature for "autocommit". We can have
> the default be "set autocommit on" (probably with an equals sign like
> our other "set" variables) and we can have it be a run-time option like
> DATESTYLE and other settable parameters. So you can configure your
> server or your client environment to always behave the way you prefer.
>
> I'd be happy to implement the syntax and the environment variable parts;
> just need a global boolean value to check and set...
Nice! TIA -:)
Could you also change configure stuff, to choose default mode
before compiling?
Vadim
