On Thursday 01 March 2007 11:42 am, mikie wrote: [..snipped..] > Thats exactly what I was thinking, too. But PHP does things in some > other way, I guess. > I am sending an entire sql transaction block to the PHP pg_query > command, so it starts with BEGIN and ends with COMMIT. Then I still > have to execute another pg_query with "commit;" only - thats why I am > asking here if maybe someone know what the problem is. > greetings, I don't know if this will solve your problem or not, but on my machines, "autoCommit" is set to "true" by default (using PEAR::DB).. so when I want to do an operation that I expect to have to rollback, I turn *off* autocommit, do my begin, run my queries, then a commit or rollback at the end, followed by restoring autoCommit. it sounds to me like that is what is happening. regards, -- Jeff MacDonald, Zoid Technologies <http://zoidtechnologies.com/>