Re: Changing behavior of BEGIN...sleep...do something...COMMIT

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Olleg Samojlov <olleg(at)jane(dot)telecom(dot)mipt(dot)ru>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Changing behavior of BEGIN...sleep...do something...COMMIT
Date: 2003-04-03 17:47:00
Message-ID: 11086.1049392020@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Olleg Samojlov <olleg(at)jane(dot)telecom(dot)mipt(dot)ru> writes:
> As I can remember, already, when autocommit off transaction begin with
> first DML or DDL command. May be better change client to use autocommit
> off mode?

We've been waiting for those clients to get fixed for a long while.
Waiting for them to adopt autocommit-off seems about as hopeless as
waiting for them to postpone BEGIN :-(

Also, per other discussions, we are removing backend autocommit support
in 7.4. It was the wrong way to do it.

regards, tom lane

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