>
> The issue I see is that it can cause silent data loss. An application that
> expects the documented API default - autocommit on - and just does some
> UPDATEs is going to throw away all its changes if autocommit is mysteriously
> off by default, because it's never going to call commit().
>
> -O
>
Yes, of course you are right and it would be very bad indeed. I guess
I wasn't thinking of the impact properly (the app I am working with
isn't doing updates).
Maybe I'll revisit this again one day, but think about it a bit more first!