Andrew Sullivan <ajs@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Oh, heaven. I can at least think of ways to use ENUM such that you
> can justify the trade-off. I can think of no excuse whatever for
> PQexec("COMMIT; BEGIN"). That's just lazy and sloppy.

> Note also that more recent releases, concurrent with the improvements
> to the drivers, also reduce the impact of this sort of database misuse
> slightly.

Actually, as of 8.3 I think the impact is zero, because of the lazy
XID allocation changes. It's still sloppy programming though.

regards, tom lane

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