You probably need to execute a "begin;" statement first if you want to start
a transaction.
Sam
> -----Original Message-----
> From: stefan@extum.com [mailto:stefan@extum.com]
> Sent: 20 July 2002 12:51
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: [GENERAL] COMMIT in PostgreSQL
>
>
>
> Hey,
>
> I was running a script which does some INSERTS and UPDATE
> some table. I
> found that there is no need for COMMIT; After each statement
> the TABLE is
> immediately commited. Other session via psql can sees ASAP
> the changes to
> the table. So it seems a bit different than Oracle's COMMIT .
> Can somebody
> explain me why this is so in PostgreSQL ?
>
> Are the modifications done without commit statement ?
>
> PostgreSQL looks really interesting and seems to be good SQL
> compliant.
> stefan
>
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