Re: Set AUTOCOMMIT to on in script output by pg_dump

>> I am not sure if it is good to include psql's meta-command in
>> pg_dump/pg_dumpall
>> results. Can we assume users will always use psql to restore the pg_dump
>> results?
> 
> 
> Agreed.  If we aren’t already outputting psql-only stuff I am a strong -1
> for making this the first such case.

I think the pg_dumpall output already includes "\connect".

> It would be nice to describe exactly when there is a problem as well since
> very few things require being outside of a transaction.  There might be
> documentation or code patches possible here to improve matters (like adding
> a switch to output begin/commit in the places we’re a user might want
> single-transaction behavior) but this approach breaks well-established
> encapsulation and overrides user expectations in a bad way (since
> autocommit=on is the default they choose to turn it off so turning it back
> on silently - not even documented - is bad.)

+1.

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