| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
| 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 14:05:11 |
| Message-ID: | 200311091405.hA9E5BM06993@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> 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.
Shouldn't BEGIN and START TRANSACTION have the same mechanics? The
changes to the code were the addition of only one line. The rest of the
patch was docs.
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