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From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Re: Suggestion: Issue warning when calling SET TRANSACTION outside transaction block
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In response to Re: Re: Suggestion: Issue warning when calling SET TRANSACTION outside transaction block  (Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>)
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On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 12:27:49AM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> I wish we'd just left this whole thing well enough alone.  It wasn't
> broken, and didn't need fixing.

Well, this started with a complaint that one SET command outside of a
transaction had no effect, and expanded to other SET commands and the
ABORT/notice inconsistency.

I realize the doc discussion is probably excessive, but we do regularly
get credit for our docs:
https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1316The PostgreSQL manual is a thing of quiet beauty.

I hope "quiet beauty" matches our discussion goal here.  :-)

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