On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 04:10:24PM +0930, Tyson Lloyd Thwaites wrote: > I am not familiar with the autocommit fiasco, but I can use my > imagination... :) The changed transaction semantics caused much havoc with librarys and drivers because client program could change the setting and driver no long had any idea when their queries would commit. > You mention it can be built into the driver - is this a 'could be' or > 'has been', ie is this a mainstream practice, or would such a thing be > considered risky? I would think it would be wonderful to allow users to > choose to override this behaviour - and suffer the consequences if > necessary! It's like playing with the fsync setting... turn it off at > your own risk. Looking at the archives it's definitly been discussed but looks like it's waiting for someone to implement it... (Odd, I wouldn't have thought it was so difficult). Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@xxxxxxxxx> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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