From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | 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 16:23:20 |
Message-ID: | 4700.1068481400@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Jan Wieck wrote:
>> Since BEGIN isn't standard, wouldn't it be time to redirect them on the
>> BEGIN manpage to the START TRANSACTION manpage and tell them there that
>> BEGIN does not support the full syntax of START TRANSACTION?
> Yea, we could do that, and if it was hard to add, we would, but it seems
> easier to just say BEGIN and START TRANSACTION are the same except the
> later is standard, rather than have the later have additional
> functionality too.
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.
regards, tom lane
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