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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Jan Wieck <janwieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Thies C. Arntzen <thies@digicol.de>
Cc: rasmus@php.net, PostgreSQL-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Re: PostgreSQL and PHP persistent connections
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 09:18:25 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <200102081418.JAA16051@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200102081310.IAA03647@jupiter.greatbridge.com>

> > > 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.
> 
>     Why   not   tracing  PQcmdStatus(result)  on  the  persistent
>     connection?  It  allways   returns   "BEGIN",   "COMMIT"   or
>     "ROLLBACK" for whatever you issued.
> 
>     Well,  it'll  not  catch the uncommon case that someone might
>     issue  multiple  queries   in   one   statements   (semicolon
>     separated). But that's IMHO bad practice anyway and the above
>     will avoid communication, context switching and eating up  of
>     XID's until we have silent rollback in 7.2.

It is the multi-command issue that prevented me from suggesting checking
the return status.  If they are leaving an open transaction after
disconnecting, they could be doing any crazy thing.

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