From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] BEGIN vs START TRANSACTION |
Date: | 2003-11-10 17:05:31 |
Message-ID: | 20031110170531.GB6483@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:23:20AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> IIRC, the code patch only added about two lines to gram.y. It seems a
> bit silly to add *more* lines of documentation to explain that the two
> statements aren't alike than it would take lines of code to make them
> work alike.
But maybe it would be useful to point out the difference; for example,
users will get confused if they try to start a subtransaction inside a
plpgsql function using BEGIN.
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Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"El miedo atento y previsor es la madre de la seguridad" (E. Burke)
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