Re: SET autocommit begins transaction?

> > Of course, the reason they're rollbackable is:
> >
> > begin;
> > create schema newschema;
> > set search_path = newschema;
> > rollback;
> >
> > create table junk; -- DOH!
>
> And:
>
> set statement_timeout = 20;
> query_with_error;
> set statement_timeout = 0;
> COMMIT;
>
> That will have to change in autocommit off to:
>
> BEGIN;
> SET statement_timeout = 20;
> query_with_error;
> SET statement_timeout = 0;
> COMMIT;
>
> I assume that BEGIN does start a transaction. With no BEGIN above, the
> big problem is that it will work most of the time, but when/if the query
> fails, they will find out they forgot the BEGIN.

Wouldn't it roll back to 0 though because the SET statement_timeout TO
20 was inside of a transaction (assuming the value was 0 before the
transaction began)? -sc

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Sean Chittenden