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

From Peter T Mount
Subject Re: [SQL] Turn autocommit off ?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.3.96.980918182707.495G-100000@maidast.retep.org.uk
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In response to Turn autocommit off ?  (Andreas Joppich <ajoppich@usa.net>)
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On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Andreas Joppich wrote:

> 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 ?

You didn't say if it was from psql or one of the other interfaces.

With JDBC, you turn autocommit off with the setAutoCommit() method in
Connection:

To turn off:

    Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(url,user,password);
    con.setAutoCommit(false);

>
> I'm currently using the cvs from last sunday on linux 2.1.119.
>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> Andreas
>

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