Re: Consecutive queries

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 09:23:04PM +0100, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is there any way to ensure that one query has completed before a
> second one is executed? I have to execute an UPDATE and follow it

Sure; do one after another in the same transaction.

> I'm accessing PostgresSQL via ADO on a windows machine, and I tried -
>
> (i) enclosing the two queries in one transaction, as follows:
>
> begin;
> update ... (etc)... ;
> select ...(etc)...;
> commit;

If this doesn't work, then there must be something you're not telling
us, or else something _really_ strange about the ADO interface.  The
UPDATE either completed or not; there'd be no way for the SELECT to
return anything different than the state of the relevant tuples.

A

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