Re: AW: [HACKERS] Begin statement again

On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Zeugswetter Andreas wrote:

> I think we should depreciate the BEGIN/END keywords in SQL to allow them
> to be used for the new PL/SQL. So definitely leave them out of ecpg now.
> Only accept BEGIN WORK and BEGIN TRANSACTION. (do a sequence of commit work; begin work)

Apologies for intrusion.

I think we don't need BEGIN/END at all, these statements aren't SQL standard.
END is an alias for COMMIT.
(why do we need two statements to do the same thing?).

from man commit:
"...
This commands commits the current transaction. All
changes made by the transaction become visible to others
and are guaranteed to be durable if a crash occurs.
COMMIT is functionally equivalent to the END command"
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

from man begin:
"...
commands commits the current transaction. All
changes made by the transaction become visible to others
and are guaranteed to be durable if a crash occurs."

and BEGIN should be changed to SQL standard SET TRANSACTION statement.
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PS:
I think PL/pgSQL is an eccellent idea. Go for it.
Ciao, Jose'