[Zope-DB] Psycopg, Zope & Autocommit

[Federico Di Gregorio]

Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Smith, Neil (Worcester)'s letter:
> > this is how it works and let me add that adding COMMIT at
> > the end of every SQL Method will badly confuse Zope's
> > transaction machinery.
> 
> I agree that putting a commit at the end of the statement is not what should
> be done.  However, why will it confuse Zope.  All the transaction machinery
> has to do is decide at the end of the transaction whether it has had any
> errors and needs to issue a rollback, or whether it has been successful and
> needs to do a commit.  If a commit or rollback has already been issued
> within the ZSQL statements, then the commit or rollback that gets issued by
> the transaction machinery will obviously only apply to anything after what
> was committed or rolled back by the application.  This might not be what the
> user wants (but equally it might be exactly what they want), but it isn't
> going to confuse anything.

ok, i obviously choosed the wrong term.

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Federico Di Gregorio
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