Re: BEGIN vs START TRANSACTION

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BEGIN vs START TRANSACTION
Date: 2003-10-27 09:00:14
Message-ID: 1067245214.460.7.camel@tokyo
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On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 19:22, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Hi all,
> why START TRANSACTION READ ONLY is allowed
> and not BEGIN READ ONLY ?

As Chris KL points out, it's not required by the standard (since BEGIN
isn't part of the standard to begin with). I suppose we could add it,
but it seems a little pointless -- "BEGIN ; SET ..." seems just as good.

-Neil

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