Re: [HACKERS] END/ABORT - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] END/ABORT
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Msg-id 12524.949097912@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to END/ABORT  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] END/ABORT
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> I'd like to yank the END/ABORT commands, since they're non-standard and
> redundant (COMMIT/ROLLBACK). Anyone who could not bear to see them go?

Exactly what will this accomplish, other than breaking a lot of existing
applications?  (Including all of mine, which no doubt biases my thinking.)

> (Of course END would stay as a reserved word.)

If the words must remain reserved, then there's even less value in
removing the statements.

I'm agin it...
        regards, tom lane


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