Thread: Autocommit in libpq

Dengler, Michael wrote:
> Please forgive me if I missed something (I have been searching for a definitive answer for this for 2 days).
>
> Is there any way to disable autocommit in libpq? (PG 7.4.1)

Just call BEGIN to start a transaction, and COMMIT to commit it. Other
than that, no.

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Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Dengler, Michael wrote:
>> Please forgive me if I missed something (I have been searching for a
>> definitive answer for this for 2 days).
>>
>> Is there any way to disable autocommit in libpq? (PG 7.4.1)
>
> Just call BEGIN to start a transaction, and COMMIT to commit it. Other
> than that, no.
>

And very on topic, you need to upgrade ASAP to the latest 7.4.x.

Joshua D. Drake


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Thanks for the reply. Your advice to upgrade sounds urgent. Are there critical reasons I need to go to 7.4.16?

Thanks

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com]
Sent: March 13, 2007 11:29 AM
To: Heikki Linnakangas
Cc: Dengler, Michael; pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [PERFORM] Autocommit in libpq

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> Dengler, Michael wrote:
>> Please forgive me if I missed something (I have been searching for a
>> definitive answer for this for 2 days).
>>
>> Is there any way to disable autocommit in libpq? (PG 7.4.1)
>
> Just call BEGIN to start a transaction, and COMMIT to commit it. Other
> than that, no.
>

And very on topic, you need to upgrade ASAP to the latest 7.4.x.

Joshua D. Drake


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"Dengler, Michael" <Michael_Dengler@tvworks.com> writes:
> Thanks for the reply. Your advice to upgrade sounds urgent. Are there critical reasons I need to go to 7.4.16?

Read the release notes between 7.4.1 and 7.4.16 and judge for yourself:
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release.html

            regards, tom lane