[DB-SIG] Transaction start

[Gerhard Häring]

* Federico Di Gregorio <fog@initd.org> [2002-05-27 00:56 +0200]:
> Il sab, 2002-05-25 alle 06:17, Gerhard Häring ha scritto:
> > The DB-API Connection object has commit and rollback methods, but it
> > lacks a begin method.
> > 
> > Not considering the implementation of an autocommit feature, does this
> > mean that the DB-API module must implicitely start, and possibly roll
> > back transactions at certain points?
> > 
> > I guess a cursor.execute must start a new transaction, where else must a
> > transaction be started? Could anybody please clarify this?
> 
> if the db support transactions a new transaction is started:
> 
> 1. after .connect(), any moment just before the first .execute()
> 2. after .commit() or .rollback(), any time before next .execute()

Thanks, that's also what pyPgSQL currently seems to implement. I just
weren't sure why it was done this way.

Now I can try to implement transactions the right way in PySQLite.

Thanks,

Gerhard
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