[DB-SIG] Transactions: how to start them?

[Michael Lorton]

You always have a transaction running -- when you open a connection,
that starts the transaction.  When you close one (by commit or
rollback), the next is automatically started.

M.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Andrew Kuchling [SMTP:amk@magnet.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 17, 1997 7:44 AM
> To:	db-sig@python.org
> Subject:	[DB-SIG] Transactions: how to start them?
> 
> In the DB-API, Connection objects have commit() and rollback() methods
> to commit or abort a transaction.  However, the API doesn't specify
> how to indicate the *start* of a transaction; is it database-specific?
> It seems like an omission from the spec; what am I missing?
> 
> 
> 	Andrew Kuchling
> 	amk@magnet.com
> 	http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/
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