From Gary Brown : It would make sense for gsh to have the ability to set autocommit on/off and to start and commit/rollback exceptions.

should i just have something that says "begin transaction", then commands, then commit or rollback (which ends the transaction). IF you are in a transaction, perhaps it could give you a text clue that tells you it isnt committed yet. If you are not in a transaction, it will just act as it did before.