On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:29:40 -0800, Darren Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:55 AM +0000 3/9/05, Martin J. Evans wrote: > >Just a small point. > >I could be wrong (I cannot look it up right now) but I think in ODBC > >SQLEndTran > >can issue a rollback or commit on ALL connections. Effectively, it issues the > >rollback/commit on each connection in the environment. > >That would be a lot harder to do with $dbh->do since you'd have to do it once > >per connection. > > If you wanted a global action in DBI, then reasonable syntax could be > to issue the rollback/commit on the DBI class name rather than on a > connection handle object. Either that, or restructure DBI so that > the first thing a user does is create an "environment handle" object, > off of which they call connect(), which incidentally saves us having > to use any package globals. -- Darren Duncan
Can someone provide a scenario where you would want to issue a global rollback or commit? Perhaps (probably) I'm suffering from a limited imagination here, but it seems like you would want to rollback or commit on a connection by connection basis. Dan
