Re: BEGIN vs START TRANSACTION - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: BEGIN vs START TRANSACTION
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Msg-id 1067245214.460.7.camel@tokyo
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In response to BEGIN vs START TRANSACTION  (Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com>)
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On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 19:22, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Hi all,
> why START TRANSACTION READ ONLY is allowed
> and not BEGIN READ ONLY ?

As Chris KL points out, it's not required by the standard (since BEGIN
isn't part of the standard to begin with). I suppose we could add it,
but it seems a little pointless -- "BEGIN ; SET ..." seems just as good.

-Neil




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