Re: why are my SELECTs in transaction?

From: "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Travis Hume <travis(dot)hume(at)tenzing(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: why are my SELECTs in transaction?
Date: 2003-06-19 14:25:46
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0306191524050.29248-100000@ponder.fairway2k.co.uk
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Nigel J. Andrews wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
> > Travis Hume writes:
> >
> > > So at this point all selects are screwed unless I issue a ROLLBACK;
> > > Why? Is there a way for SELECTs (or all SQL) statement that fail to NOT
> > > have this behaviour?
> >
> > You probably set autocommit to off. Turn it on.
>
> Actually, I've been having a oddity along those lines on 7.3.3
>
> Running a script as from a shell scipt as:
>
> ...

Ah, sorry, I think I might have got confused with an email I saw yesterday. I
only glanced at the content of this one before replying making what appear to
be some wrong assumptions about the subject matter from the subject line.

--
Nigel J. Andrews

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