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Subject: Re: [HACKERS] More thoughts about FE/BE protocol
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>(a) the problems are "swapped in" now; if I don't continue with this
>work I'll probably forget a lot of the issues.
>
>(b) there are some things in 7.3 --- autocommit being a big one --- that we
>can *not* put off changing, or we'll be stuck with them forevermore.
>
>(c) the interfaces do not have to catch up in time for 7.4 release,
>because we'll still support the old protocol.
>
>			regards, tom lane
>
>  
>
What is this "auto-commit" about? Any place where I can read about it?

Thanks

Wei