There should probably have been a little more of an explanation on the post, but: 99% of the connections that touch Vertica, for us, are read-only. Actually, w

There should probably have been a little more of an explanation on the post, but: 99% of the connections that touch Vertica, for us, are read-only. Actually, we have no system in which there is mixed read/write to Vertica. Either a system reads from it, or writes to it. That made it very easy for us to figure out where to turn off autocommit, and to do it without losing any of the aforementioned correctness.