I assume this item is still open. I put it in the 7.3 queue:
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Barry Lind wrote:
> I have just been looking into a bug report against the jdbc driver and I
> found the following behavior that I can't explain.
>
> If I run jdbc with setAutoCommit=true then notifications work as
> expected, however if I run with setAutoCommit=false then notifications
> are not being sent from the backend to the client.
>
> With autoCommit=false the jdbc driver is sending the following SQL
> commands to the server:
>
> begin
> select 1
> commit;begin;
> select 1
> commit;begin;
> select 1
> ...
>
> My test code is using the select statement as a means to poll for the
> notifications. The only thing that is unusual about this is that the
> "commit;begin;" command string is sent to the server as a single query
> to be processed.
>
> With autoCommit=true the SQL commands are simply:
>
> select 1
> select 1
> select 1
> ...
>
> In this mode the notifications work correctly.
>
> Is there something I am doing wrong, or is this expected behavior for
> the server?
>
> thanks,
> --Barry
>
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