Default Transaction Mode

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From: Terry Hampton <thampton(at)limacorp(dot)com>
To: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Default Transaction Mode
Date: 2004-01-09 21:31:05
Message-ID: 3FFF1D99.9090402@limacorp.com
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Is it possible to configure Postgres,
or to start PG daemons so that it
operates in a transaction mode by default ?

We do a lot of work at the PG prompt, and I'd
like to have one additional "safety net" - to manual
commit all SQL's. Sure - I can "begin work" etc.
but I'd like that to be automatic.

Thanks,
Terry

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Terry L. Hampton
Program Manager
LimaCorp, LLC. www.limacorp.com
513.587.1874


From: Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx>
To: Terry Hampton <thampton(at)limacorp(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Default Transaction Mode
Date: 2004-01-10 01:08:32
Message-ID: m365fkwqy7.fsf@conexa.fciencias.unam.mx
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Terry Hampton <thampton(at)limacorp(dot)com> writes:

> Is it possible to configure Postgres,
> or to start PG daemons so that it
> operates in a transaction mode by default ?
>
> We do a lot of work at the PG prompt, and I'd
> like to have one additional "safety net" - to manual
> commit all SQL's. Sure - I can "begin work" etc.
> but I'd like that to be automatic.

If you are working with psql type set autocommit to false if using
version 7.3 or \unset AUTOCOMMIT for version 7.4. You can put those
commands in your .psqlrc file and psql will read it each time it's
invoked. See psql(1) for details.

Regards,
Manuel.