Db transactions and locking
Chris Angelico
rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Nov 28 00:54:57 EST 2014
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Frank Millman <frank at chagford.com> wrote:
> There seems to be a difference between conn.commit() and
> cur.execute('commit'), which leaves the connection in a different state.
Yes, if a connection library offers a way to commit/roll back, it's
usually best to use that.
> However, for my purposes, this is academic.
>
> The main lesson I have learned is that you should always issue a commit
> after any logical set of SQL statements, even if they are only SELECTs,
> otherwise the locks are not released.
Correct. Every time you use any database, you should think in terms of
units of work, which correspond precisely to transactions.
ChrisA
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