postgres/perl, autocommit and BEGIN; COMMIT;

[Stewart C. Russell]

cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 
> In many cases, it'll silently turn your data into crud on you instead of
> raising exceptions.

Our mileage has clearly varied. One place I worked had MySQL doing 
business-critical things on a very busy financial website. mysqld 
uptimes were measured in months, and there had been no data corruption 
in the four years that the system had been running.

  Stewart
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