Re: [HACKERS] SQL statements: begin and end

Whatever happened to
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
...
COMMIT;

I never liked END to begin with, since it doesn't really imply that you
are committing anything. Or what is the non-committing counterpart of END?

But I think we should go strictly with the SQL standard, even if that
contradicts what I just said. (?)

-Peter

On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Zeugswetter Andreas SEV wrote:

> I see everybody using the following PostgreSQL statements:
>
> "begin" instead of "begin work"
> "end" instead of "commit work"
>
> This is really bad, because it is not standard, and can easily be taken for
> a statement block, which it is definitely not ! It is a transaction block.
>
> I vote for issuing a NOTICE for these in V7 and remove them in V8,
> at least the single "end"
>
> Bruce, please don't use "begin" and "end" in your book.
>
> Andreas
>
> ************
>
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