Re: php with postgres

Marcus B?rger wrote:
> >> However it may be very usefull to terminate any open transaction before
> >> reusing a persisten connection. Typically this happens when the same script
> >> runs again. But anyway using transactions together with persistent conenctions
> >> in a multithreaded environment isn't the best thing you could do. So our
> >> options are
> >> 1) tell the users to do 'auto commit mode'
> >> 2) nested transactions
> >> 3) locking
> >>
> >> >From my perspective 2) and 3) are bad ideas for the web environment. In other
> >> words i guess we should leave it as is with transaction rollback only when the
> >> client terminates (e.g. the webserver stops).
>
> BM> I don't see why you wouldn't just do BEGIN;COMMIT;RESET ALL; when you
> BM> pass the connection to a new client.
>
>
> Bruce you said RESET ALL is available since 7.2. I am currently checking for
> the lib version but it would be more correct to check something on the server.
> So the question what do i check?

We usually use SELECT version().

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