Re: how to ensure a client waits for a previous transaction to finish?

Thanks for that, that should help me sort it out. I haven't used the
autocommit option in pgdbi. I'll have a look to see if DBI::do has an
option to wait for command completion.

cheers

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 16:12 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> It's not.  What you want is to COMMIT and make sure you've gotten the
> command completion response for that.  Possibly perl is complicating
> matters with some sort of autocommit logic behind your back.