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From Robert Haas
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  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Suggestion: Issue warning when calling SET TRANSACTION outside transaction block
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:
> Well, ERROR is what LOCK returns, so if we change SET TRANSACTION to be
> WARNING, we should change LOCK too, so on backward-compatibility
> grounds, ERROR makes more sense.
>
> Personally, I am fine with changing them all to WARNING.

I don't think it's worth breaking backward compatibility.  I'm not
entirely sure what I would have decided here in a vacuum, but at this
point existing precedent seems determinative.

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Robert Haas
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