# Connection – The connection object

class pgdb.Connection

These connection objects respond to the following methods.

Note that `pgdb.Connection` objects also implement the context manager protocol, i.e. you can use them in a `with` statement. When the `with` block ends, the current transaction will be automatically committed or rolled back if there was an exception, and you won’t need to do this manually.

## close – close the connection

Connection.close()

  Close the connection now (rather than whenever it is deleted)

  Return type:

    None

The connection will be unusable from this point forward; an `Error` (or subclass) exception will be raised if any operation is attempted with the connection. The same applies to all cursor objects trying to use the connection. Note that closing a connection without committing the changes first will cause an implicit rollback to be performed.

## commit – commit the connection

Connection.commit()

  Commit any pending transaction to the database

  Return type:

    None

Note that connections always use a transaction, unless you set the `Connection.autocommit` attribute described below.

## rollback – roll back the connection

Connection.rollback()

  Roll back any pending transaction to the database

  Return type:

    None

This method causes the database to roll back to the start of any pending transaction. Closing a connection without committing the changes first will cause an implicit rollback to be performed.

## cursor – return a new cursor object

Connection.cursor()

  Return a new cursor object using the connection

  Returns:

    a connection object

  Return type:

    `Cursor`

This method returns a new `Cursor` object that can be used to operate on the database in the way described in the next section.

## Attributes that are not part of the standard

Note

The following attributes are not part of the DB-API 2 standard.

Connection.closed

  This is True if the connection has been closed or has become invalid

Connection.cursor_type

  The default cursor type used by the connection

If you want to use your own custom subclass of the `Cursor` class with he connection, set this attribute to your custom cursor class. You will then get your custom cursor whenever you call `Connection.cursor()`.

Added in version 5.0.

Connection.type_cache

  A dictionary with the various type codes for the PostgreSQL types

This can be used for getting more information on the PostgreSQL database types or changing the typecast functions used for the connection. See the description of the `TypeCache` class for details.

Added in version 5.0.

Connection.autocommit

  A read/write attribute to get/set the autocommit mode

Normally, all DB-API 2 SQL commands are run inside a transaction. Sometimes this behavior is not desired; there are also some SQL commands such as VACUUM which cannot be run inside a transaction.

By setting this attribute to `True` you can change this behavior so that no transactions will be started for that connection. In this case every executed SQL command has immediate effect on the database and you don’t need to call `Connection.commit()` explicitly. In this mode, you can still use `with con:` blocks to run parts of the code using the connection `con` inside a transaction.

By default, this attribute is set to `False` which conforms to the behavior specified by the DB-API 2 standard (manual commit required).

Added in version 5.1.