On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 13:41, Barry Lind wrote:
> However the proposed FE/BE protocol change to tell the client the
> transaction state would allow the driver to detect this.
>
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>
> Of these two limitations the first is more significant since users do
> issue 'commit' statements directly sometimes, whereas users would likely
> never change the GUC parameter in their SQL. I like the simplicity of
> the GUC parameter and that is the reason I converted the jdbc driver in
> 7.3 to use this new method.
>
While the first may seem more significant, it sounds like it is actually
going away with the fe/be protocol changes. If thats true, it seems to
me this makes the GUC method the most limiting.
Robert Treat