On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 03:57:59PM -0400, Andrew Rawnsley wrote: > > I find that some clients (DBVisualizer for one) do exactly that - > execute the COMMIT;BEGIN sequence, and leaves idle > transactions on a consistent basis. Almost all the things I've see that set the autocommit behaviour will also do this. I suspect it's a pretty common approach. It has burned us at work several times, and I knew in advance it was a problem. I can't imagine what it's like for people who aren't aware of it. A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@crankycanuck.ca ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to majordomo@postgresql.org)