On 14/01/2004 00:17 Nigel J. Andrews wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Thapliyal, Deepak wrote:
> Thx Nigel.. > > Also can you kindly advice how to turn autocommit to off
Probably:
SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF;
although I'm not sure that is still there in 7.4 and there was a lot of discussion on it's 'brokeness' I believe. I'm sure someone else will correct me if I'm wrong. I don't actually know as I've never used that feature, I have always used explicit transaction starts if I have wanted multistatement transactions, and I can't remember the details of the discussion now. A search of the list archives should yield a collection of posts on this subject.
I think you're right about "SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF" being removed from 7.4. In any case, what you want to is use transactions. I think the confusion occurs because in some (many?) client-side languages you inititiate a transaction by setting auto-commit to off (JDBC and ODBC do this) in the client-side driver. In the case of the PostgreSQL JDBC driver, this causes a BEGIN command to be sent to the server. I would imagine ODBC does the same.
HTH
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