On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:54:37AM -0000, Martin J. Evans wrote: > > On 10-Mar-2005 Tim Bunce wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:54:54AM -0000, Martin J. Evans wrote: > >> > >> although ODBC does not define what happens if one of the commits on a > >> connection fails (this alone probably makes commiting on an environment > >> unpopular if used at all). > > > > Exactly. This (commit_all etc) won't make it into the DBI for that reason. > > Drivers are, of course, fee to add whatever they want. > > > > Tim. > > Just for clarification. I was not putting this up as a proposal, it was just a > comment on things you can't do in SQL in one go.
Sure, I know, just thought I'd use it to point out my position on 'transactional' features that can't be done right. > If I were looking into this I would be looking at XA not this half-hearted > attempt in ODBC. Yeap. That's pretty much what I said in my first message on this thread :) Tim.
