Re: [SQL] What is the syntax turn off auto commit?

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Raymond Chui <raymond(dot)chui(at)noaa(dot)gov>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [SQL] What is the syntax turn off auto commit?
Date: 2001-07-18 18:18:55
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0107181118130.30757-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Raymond Chui wrote:

>
>
> The Subject says its all.
>
> To speed up a bulk of INSERTs, I need to turn-off the auto commit 1st.
> Then
> at the end of INSERTs, issue COMMIT;
> What is the syntax to turn off the auto commit? Thank you!

Put them in an explicit transaction block
begin
insert ...
insert ...
commit;

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