Re: PostgreSQL and PHP persistent connections

At 15:50 07/02/01 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > We discussed using 'ROLLBACK' before passing a connection to a new user,
> > > but the problem was that ROLLBACK with no open transaction causes a
> > > server log error message. We discussed adding 'ROLLBACK SILENT' to fix
> > > this, but I believe a better, more portable solution is a simple "BEGIN
> > > WORK;ROLLBACK". This will do nothing if there is no open transaction,
> >
> > How is that an improvement? It only changes the case in which you get
> > a NOTICE from not-in-transaction to in-transaction ...
>
>Well, the most common case is that you are not in a transaction.

Also (JDBC again), it would ensure that no transaction was around when a
connection was passed to a new client. By default it should be in
autocommit mode.

Peter

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