Géry <gery.o...@gmail.com> added the comment:
@james.oldfield
> What that answer doesn't mention is that, even with even with
> isolation_mode=None, it's perfectly possible to start a transaction, which
> takes the SQLite engine out of autocommit mode.
Exactly, so since autocommit=True is equivalent to isolation_mode=None I do not
see why you the name ‘autocommit’ would be a problem. As you said, when you
issue BEGIN, you leave autocommit mode.
> Under your proposal, the first line would be changed to say
> "autocommit=True", even though not all the code below is in autocommit mode
> (according to the SQLite engine's definition).
What is the difference with isolation_mode=None which also means autocommit
mode?
> What's more, I could insert this line of code between statements 3 and 6:
> print("Autocommit mode?", conn.autocommit)
> And it would print True even though autocommit mode is off!
No, because the autocommit property would be automatically updated to False at
conn.execute("BEGIN"), which is the standard behaviour as @lemburg explained.
@lemburg
> I guess the SQLite driver does not start a new transaction for SELECTs, since
> these are usually read-only
Nor for DDL statements (CREATE, DROP).
> For the same reason, removing the SELECT "optimization" may cause
> a backwards incompatible change, which can be tricky to identify
> and cause corruption of data (in this case, data not written to
> the database, where it previously was written).
Since DQL statements (SELECT) are read-only, maybe we could keep the
optimization and start transactions implicitly only for DDL statements (CREATE,
DROP)?
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