Re: TODO: Add a GUC to control whether BEGIN inside - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: TODO: Add a GUC to control whether BEGIN inside
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Msg-id 200701021153.18689.peter_e@gmx.net
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In response to Re: TODO: Add a GUC to control whether BEGIN inside  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Am Donnerstag, 28. Dezember 2006 18:57 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> I think you can make the case that this should be an error, or at least
> that's how it got on the TODO list.  I can always remove it if people
> don't want the item completed.

The reason this was added is that modular applications expect that a locally 
issued BEGIN ... COMMIT executes a transaction, whereas now you don't know 
what you're getting.  I think this change would have merit.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/


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