Re: set autocommit only for select statements - Mailing list pgsql-admin

Am 12.04.22 um 03:53 schrieb Mladen Gogala:
>
> The "autocommit" is a tool option which tells the tool whether to add 
> "COMMIT" statement after each and every SQL. The RDBMS server only 
> knows about transactions, as mandated by the ACID compliance. What the 
> "autocommit" option of tools like psql actually does is to turn each 
> of your SQL statements into a separate transaction.
>
What you write about psql sending a COMMIT statement after each 
statement is wrong. It may be true for other database systems.

PostgreSQL as a server commits each statement automatically unless the 
client has started a transaction with BEGIN or START TRANSACTION statements.

This can be proved easily by not using psql as a client, but some 
programming language.

Regards,

Holger


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