On Fri, 19 May 2000, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> This is postgreSQL 7.0, compiled with i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.95, using no
> special options to compile or setup, except that fsync was turned off,
> as verified by the above sytem call summary. Auto-commit was on during
> this test (what's the SQL command to turn it off, anyway? I couldn't
> find it).
In Perl, I do:
my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Pg:dbname=$dbname;host=$dbhost;port=$dbport","$dbuser");
$dbh->{AutoCommit} = 0;
And then make sure you do a $dbh->commit(); whenever you want to end the
transaction ...
>
>
> NB: The same benchmark revealed that CREATE TABLE (or maybe it's CREATE
> INDEX) leaks about 2k of memory.
>
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>
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