On Monday, April 20, 2020, John Muehlhausen <jgm@jgm.org> wrote:
# docs seem to indicate that an implied transaction
# will not exist if there is an explicit begin/commit?
cur.execute(("notify __test; "
"begin; select pg_advisory_lock(7777); "
"select pg_advisory_unlock(7777); commit"))
A more comprehensive reading of the docs finds:
“ If the BEGIN follows some statements that were executed as an implicit transaction block, those statements are not immediately committed; in effect, they are retroactively included into the new regular transaction block. “.
