Magnus Lycka wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm not calling COMMIT at all. > > Then you must be using autocommit if your records stay in > the table. An DB-API 2.0 compliant adapter should turn off > autocommit by default! Does MyISAM even support proper > commit handling? [...]
No, it doesn't. And COMMIT is then simply a no-op if it doesn't raise an error already. > Oh well, Oracle will probably kill MySQL soon. Did you read too much Slashdot to spread such FUD? > [...] I'd use a real database system. MySQL 5 could be described as one, according to the feature list, and if you use a transactional table type. I myself won't bother with it because PostgreSQL is still more featureful that MySQL 5, has a much longer track record with these features proven stable and a more liberal licensing. -- Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list