Re: Should changing AutoCommit issue BEGIN and COMMIT?

Bill Moseley wrote:
> I'm not clear what the intended behavior is suppose to be.  But it
> seems that changing AutoCommit from 1 to 0 should issue a BEGIN, and
> from 0 to 1 a COMMIT from the docs below.
>
> Could someone clarify?
>
> In testing changing AutoCommit does not issue and BEGIN or COMMIT.
>   
IIRC issuing "begin work" to PostgreSQL may have undesirable 
side-effects such as fixing the value of current_timestamp for the 
duration of the transaction. So maybe it delays "begin work" until some 
other statement is being executed?

It was quite a long time back that I encountered this... As you can 
probably guess, I haven't tested it :D

SRH