... > This would make it impossible for SET to have any persistent effect > at all. (Every SQL command is inside a transaction --- an > implicitly-established one if necesary, but there is one.)
Of course the behavior would need to be defined from the user's viewpoint, not from a literal description of how the internals work. There *is* a difference from a user's PoV between explicit transactions and single queries, no matter how that is implemented in the PostgreSQL backend... Let's not let trivial english semantics divert the discussion please. - Thomas ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly