Thread: SET AUTOCOMMIT OFF

A.Bhattacharya@sungard.com <A.Bhattacharya@sungard.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I am new to Postgresql and I need to turn off the AUTO COMMIT in PostgreSQL
> 8.3.Can anyone guide me how to do it as SET AUTOCOMMIT = off; does not seem to
> be supported any more in PostgreSQL 8.3.

Do you using psql as client?

\set AUTOCOMMIT off

You can set that in your ~/.psqlrc


Andreas
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A.Bhattacharya@sungard.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I am new to Postgresql and I need to turn off the AUTO COMMIT in
> PostgreSQL 8.3.Can anyone guide me how to do it as SET AUTOCOMMIT = off;
> does not seem to be supported any more in PostgreSQL 8.3.

Just explicitly begin a transaction, like you do in most databases:

BEGIN;
INSERT ...
UPDATE ...
COMMIT;

Are you perhaps using PostgreSQL from JDBC or ODBC? If so, those client
interfaces provide their own ways to manage the "autocommit" setting -
which internally just tells the driver to create a transaction and not
commit it until you ask it to.

One thing to understand by the way: If you're not running a statement in
an explicit transaction, it just creates its own transaction when it
starts, runs, then commits automatically when it finishes. There's no
functional difference between:

BEGIN;
INSERT ...;
COMMIT;

and a stand-alone:

INSERT ...;


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