Re: [HACKERS] END/ABORT

From: Jose Soares <jose(at)sferacarta(dot)com>
To: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
Cc: Jan Wieck <wieck(at)debis(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] END/ABORT
Date: 2000-02-01 13:19:05
Message-ID: 3896DD49.26143978@sferacarta.com
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Don Baccus wrote:

> At 09:41 AM 1/31/00 +0100, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
> > Of course, removing END/ABORT will touch many applications
> > using transactions, but I would vote for it anyway, since
> > it's standard.
>
> Does it make all that much sense to worry about the actual word
> used when the need to use "begin" is non-standard to begin with?

There is no explicit "BEGIN WORK" on SQL92, transaction initiation
is always implicit and it terminates either with a COMMIT or a
ROLLBACK
statement.

>
>
> Of course, removing that would REALLY impact current applications...
>
> - Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
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>
> ************

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Jose' Soares
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