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Re: [INTERFACES] Roadmap for FE/BE protocol redesign

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2003-03-20T16:13:16Z
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > True, but GUC seems like the way to go, and we have per-user/db settings
> > for GUC.
> 
> But the required autocommit setting depends neither on the user nor the
> database, it depends on the identity of the client application.  That type
> of granularity is not offered by GUC.

True, but the standard also requires autocommit off, so I can imagine
folks wanting it off by default for various users/database.

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