John Sidney-Woollett wrote:
> If a config switch was available for the build process that could
> preserve the "old" behavior - it wouldn't really pose a problem for
> existing users migrating their systems to v8 provided they set the
> switch appropriately.
Such a switch exists: you put \set AUTOCOMMIT in your psql configuration
file. We don't put feature-altering switches in the build process if
we can help it. Since most people use prebuilt binaries, such a switch
would be mostly useless at best.
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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/