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Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 00:46:13 -0400
From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>
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Subject: Re: determining if there's a transaction in progress
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Steve Howe wrote:

>Hello Daniel,
>Friday, August 16, 2002, 10:54:26 AM, you wrote:
>DK> hi-
>DK> i'm using libpq.  is there any way to determine if there is a transaction
>DK> is process thru libpq?
>
>There is not.
>  
>
I too could benefit from a libpq feature that indicates if a transaction 
is pending. This
helps in determining in a destructor (or Ada finalization) whether the 
default action
to rollback/commit is necessary (rather than depend upon the server 
default action).
Assuming it is always necessary is clumsy, and imposes unnecessary 
overhead in
situations where a transaction may not be in progress.

Wish 2:

After performing an INSERT operation, with a column containing a serial 
value,
it would be nice to obtain that serial value without having to resort to 
a subsequent
SELECT on OID to get at it.  INFORMIX (and ORACLE?) make this information
available to the embedded C/C++ clients.  The same in libpq would be more
efficient.

Thanks, Warren.
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Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg