> To ease any pain, what about a configuration setting for the build
> script for postgres (and psql) which changes the default behaviour for
> the AUTOCOMMIT setting.
I really agree on the need for a posibility to set autocommit = off
*regardless* of the client:
On a system using both psql, php and perl on a large bunch of clients it
is a pain - real pain - to set this behavior up individually.
It could be really nice if I had a choise of ensuring that any default
behavior was the more "secure" autommit = off. So please bring back this
setting in postgresql.conf. Please.