Re: [HACKERS] BEGIN vs START TRANSACTION

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] BEGIN vs START TRANSACTION
Date: 2003-11-09 09:18:33
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0311091017501.11030-100000@peter.localdomain
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Bruce Momjian writes:

> In fact, the BEGIN manual page says:
>
> <xref linkend="sql-start-transaction"
> endterm="sql-start-transaction-title"> has the same functionality
> as <command>BEGIN</>.
>
> which is currently not true because START TRANSACTION has additional
> options.

Then the that manual page should be fixed.

> The following patch fixes it. I will put it into 7.5 after an
> appropriate delay.

I object to adding unnecessary complications like that.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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