Re: BEGIN vs START TRANSACTION

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: BEGIN vs START TRANSACTION
Date: 2003-10-27 03:15:56
Message-ID: 3F9C8DEC.4030009@familyhealth.com.au
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> I think because START TRANSACTION is SQL standard? However, I thought
> BEGIN WORK was SQL standard, and we don't support READ ONLY there
> either --- hmmm.

BEGIN is no part of the SQL standard. The only way to begin a
transaction under the SQL standard is START TRANSACTION.

Chris

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