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From Robert Haas
Subject Re: Suggestion: Issue warning when calling SET TRANSACTION outside transaction block
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In response to Suggestion: Issue warning when calling SET TRANSACTION outside transaction block  (Morten Hustveit <morten@eventures.vc>)
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On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:04 AM, Amit Kapila <amit.kapila@huawei.com> wrote:
> I think user should be aware of effect before using SET commands, as these are used at various levels (TRANSACTION,
SESSION,...).
 

Ideally, sure.  But these kinds of mistakes are easy to make.  That's
why LOCK and DECLARE CURSOR already emit errors in this case - why
should this one be any different?

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Robert Haas
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