This question is really old, but still pops up on Google searches so I think it's valuable to know that the psycopg2.connection instance now has a closed ...
I'm using Psycopg2 in Python to access a PostgreSQL database. I'm curious if it's safe to use the with closing() pattern to create and use a cursor, ...
22.12.2021 · connection.close () Example: In the below example, The create table command is executed and values are inserted into the table using the insert SQL command. The changes are saved using the commit () method. Finally, the connection to the database is closed using the close () method. Python3 import psycopg2 conn = psycopg2.connect (
Your link to the Psycopg2 docs kind of explains it itself, no? ... Note that closing a connection without committing the changes first will cause any pending change to be discarded as if a ROLLBACK was performed (unless a different isolation level has been selected: see set_isolation_level ()).
The Psycopg connection objects exports the following additional methods and attributes. closed ¶ Read-only integer attribute: 0 if the connection is open, nonzero if it is closed or broken. cancel() ¶ Cancel the current database operation. The method interrupts the processing of the current operation. If no query is being executed, it does nothing.
Note that the connection is not closed by the context and it can be used for several contexts. conn = psycopg2.connect(DSN) with conn: with conn.cursor() as ...
10.12.2014 · I have seen examples, I have seen that when a connection to a data base is created, should close the connection when finished making queries, eg for each client: #create connection to db con = psycopg2.connect (database = 'testdb', user = 'janbodnar') cur = con.cursor () #process query . . . #close connection con.close ()
The connection class has two methods for ending a transaction: commit() and rollback() . If you want to commit all changes to the PostgreSQL database ...