[DB-SIG] Adding Connection.autocommit as standard extension to DB-API 2.0 (PEP 249)

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

On 28.10.2022 15:58, Marc-Andre Lemburg wrote:
> If there is a pending transaction, though, there are three approaches
> we could take:
> 
> 1. The database module raises an exception, to force an explicit
>     .commit() or .rollback() by the programmer.
> 
> 2. The module automatically commits the pending transaction,
>     since that's what autocommit is all about.

Just checked: Option 2 is what ODBC mandates...
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/odbc/reference/syntax/sqlsetconnectattr-function
(search for SQL_ATTR_AUTOCOMMIT)

> 3. We leave these semantics open and up to the database module
>     to determine.
> 
> My preference would be option 2, since this makes things clear for
> everyone and is intuitive (well, at least for me :-)).

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