On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 08:24:00AM +0000, Aliomar Mariano Rego wrote: > Does somebody knows why the Postgresql 7.4.8 or later doesn't supports > the option "SET AUTOCOMMIT TO OFF"? Because server-side autocommit was a bad idea. See the 7.4 Release Notes. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/static/release-7-4.html "The server-side autocommit setting was removed and reimplemented in client applications and languages. Server-side autocommit was causing too many problems with languages and applications that wanted to control their own autocommit behavior, so autocommit was removed from the server and added to individual client APIs as appropriate." -- Michael Fuhr ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match