Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> SET autocommit to 'off' is going away in 7.4 so the SET USER command
> will not work anymore in that release, and I can't think of a
> workaround. There will be interface-specific settings, I assume, but I
> am not sure how that would be controlled per-user.
As I was just telling some Red Hat cohorts, I intend to provide
autocommit support in psql for 7.4 --- probably controlled by a psql
variable, though I've not gotten round to designing the details yet.
In any case it will be possible to turn autocommit off in your ~/.psqlrc
file if you have the desire to do so. I would also say that the setting
will not apply to psql -c invocations, thus avoiding the worst effects
for scripts ...
regards, tom lane