Re: Commit Transaction Command

If you don't explicitly BEGIN, the interface (psql) will wrap every of
your commands in a transaction.

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 01:44:05 -0000, Jim Wilson <jimw(at)kelcomaine(dot)com> wrote:

> The debug logs seem a little confusing. On sending a query something
> like
> this will show up:
>
> DEBUG: StartTransactionCommand
> LOG: query: select * from blah;
> DEBUG: ProcessQuery
> DEBUG: CommitTransactionCommand
>
> This is with auto commit off. My first reaction on seeing this was the
> auto
> commit setting must not work. Then I noticed that most things, even
> "begin"
> and "commit" commands entered via the query interface in psql were
> wrapped
> with the same "DEBUG" output. And finally I did some testing and found
> that
> transactions did in fact work correctly.
>
> I am hoping that someone can enlighten me as to what this DEBUG output
> actually indicates.
>
> Running version 7.3.5.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Wilson
>
>
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