Re: JPA + Postgres = autocommit?

On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 14:53 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 7/25/2016 2:48 PM, rob stone wrote:
> > I know nothing about Payara, etc. but the "traditional" way of
> > handling
> > this in an application is to:-
> >
> > BEGIN;
> >
> > Do your inserts/updates etc.
> >
> > COMMIT; or if you caught any errors during the inserting/updating,
> > then
> >
> > ROLLBACK;
>
> Not in Java/JDBC applications.   Rather,  they have the concept of 
> autocommit on/off, you configure it on a per connection basis.    
> commit() and rollback() are API calls to the java database
> connection 
> object.
>

True, however issuing a BEGIN turns autocommit off.

> the real question here is how you convince the OP's stack of tools
> to 
> disable autocommit, and that I can't help with, but I'm sure its
> some 
> field in one of those XML files
>
>

Yes. I'd experiment with <property name="AutoCommit" value="false" />
or maybe value="off" and see if it makes a difference.

> -- 
> john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
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