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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 17:58:50 +1100
Subject: Re: Db transactions and locking
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On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Frank Millman <frank@chagford.com> wrote:
> cur.execute('commit') tells the database to commit the transaction, but the
> adaptor is not aware of this, so does not reset. Therefore the next command
> does not trigger starting a new transaction.
>
> I have now learned another lesson - never use cur.execute('commit'), always
> use conn.commit()

Without looking in the source I can't be sure, but that seems very logical.

ChrisA