Re: TODO: Add a GUC to control whether BEGIN inside

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Subject: Re: TODO: Add a GUC to control whether BEGIN inside
Date: 2007-01-02 10:53:17
Message-ID: 200701021153.18689.peter_e@gmx.net
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Am Donnerstag, 28. Dezember 2006 18:57 schrieb Bruce Momjian:
> I think you can make the case that this should be an error, or at least
> that's how it got on the TODO list. I can always remove it if people
> don't want the item completed.

The reason this was added is that modular applications expect that a locally
issued BEGIN ... COMMIT executes a transaction, whereas now you don't know
what you're getting. I think this change would have merit.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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