# 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.

## 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, there is no auto-commit.

## 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()`.

New 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.

New in version 5.0.