Transactions inside plpgsql?

Hi

I've been searching the web/mailing lists/web boards for the answer to a
question I have regarding postgresql. So far, I haven't found a conclusive
answer. My apologies in advance if this is a FAQ/stupid question.

My problem is that I would like to write a plpgsql procedure that starts and
ends transactions. This requires use of the postgres keyword 'begin'. From
what I can see, the plpgsql parser is wrongly interpreting the begin as a
plpgsql keyword.

I considered the idea of creating an 'sql' language stored procedure, called
say begin_work() which in turn makes the 'begin work' statement. While this
does seem to work, it seems a bit rediculous.

I'm hoping that I've been stupid and missed something obvious :-)

If someone could point me in the direction of the correct documentation,
I'd be most grateful.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Alan

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