Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jan Wieck wrote: >> Since BEGIN isn't standard, wouldn't it be time to redirect them on the >> BEGIN manpage to the START TRANSACTION manpage and tell them there that >> BEGIN does not support the full syntax of START TRANSACTION?
> Yea, we could do that, and if it was hard to add, we would, but it seems > easier to just say BEGIN and START TRANSACTION are the same except the > later is standard, rather than have the later have additional > functionality too. IIRC, the code patch only added about two lines to gram.y. It seems a bit silly to add *more* lines of documentation to explain that the two statements aren't alike than it would take lines of code to make them work alike. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(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