Re: autocommit trouble with jdbc on Postgres 7.4

Bob,

This sounds like a bug, do you have test code you can send me?

Dave
On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 01:13, Bob Cart wrote:
> PostgreSQL 7.4 no longer supports server side SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF,
> thanks to Tom Lane. Problem is my java application server now breaks.
> When I try to save a record in the database, I get
> "java.sql.SQLException: ERROR: SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF is no longer
> supported". <fontfamily><param>Verdana</param>The code that sends
> this is jdbc compliant and works with about a dozen other rdbms
> including postgresql7.3. Isn't he whole point of jdbc to make it so
> clients don't need to be rewritten each database??? Please don't tell
> me to change my code code - it isn't mine and I can't.</fontfamily>
>
>
> Questions:
>
>
> 1) Does this mean that the jdbc driver that ships with pg7.4 isn't up
> to speed with the new autocommit change? What about the 7.4
> development version of the driver? Does it properly handle the SQL for
> the new 7.4 change? I tried it and it also failed, but maybe I
> installed it improperly. I simply replaced the existing postgresql.jar
> file with the <fontfamily><param>Lucida Grande</param>devpgjdbc3-1.jar
> (renamed as</fontfamily> postgresql.jar) and restarted. Didn't work.
>
>
> 2) is there a version of the jdbc driver that won't send "SET
> AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF" to the postgresql7.4 server when I use
> <fontfamily><param>Verdana</param>Connection.setAutoCommit(false)
>
>
> 3) If there is a driver that works, do I need to do something other
> than just replacing the existing </fontfamily>postgresql.jar file? I'd
> assume the classpath etc would be the same it that case, but I've
> tried it building 7.4 --with-java from scratch and also tried the SuSE
> 7.4 RPM in addition to replacing the jar file as mentioned. Each fails.
>
>
> Any clues appreciated. Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Bob