On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 08:54:13AM -0800, David Johnston wrote: > How about: > > "Issuing <command> outside of a transaction has no effect and will provoke a > warning." > > I dislike "does no harm" because it can if someone thinks the current state > is different than reality. > > It is good to indicate that a warning is emitted if this is done in error; > thus reinforcing the fact people should be looking at their warnings. > > "when not inside" uses a negative modifier while "outside" is more direct > and thus easier to read, IMO. The phrase "transaction block" seems wordy so > I omitted the word "block".
Every statement runs in a transaction so we can't omit "block". -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + Everyone has their own god. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
