On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:23:20AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 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.
But may
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 th
Jan Wieck wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> >> I object to adding unnecessary complications like that.
> >>
> >> > Shouldn't BEGIN and START TRANSACTION have the same mechanics? The
> >> > change
Bruce Momjian wrote:
Tom Lane wrote:
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I object to adding unnecessary complications like that.
> Shouldn't BEGIN and START TRANSACTION have the same mechanics? The
> changes to the code were the addition of only one line. The r
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> >> I object to adding unnecessary complications like that.
>
> > Shouldn't BEGIN and START TRANSACTION have the same mechanics? The
> > changes to the code were the addition of only one line. The rest of th
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> I object to adding unnecessary complications like that.
> Shouldn't BEGIN and START TRANSACTION have the same mechanics? The
> changes to the code were the addition of only one line. The rest of the
> patch was docs.
My init
Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian writes:
>
> > In fact, the BEGIN manual page says:
> >
> > >endterm="sql-start-transaction-title"> has the same functionality
> >as BEGIN.
> >
> > which is currently not true because START TRANSACTION has additional
> > options.
>
> Then the tha
Bruce Momjian writes:
> In fact, the BEGIN manual page says:
>
>endterm="sql-start-transaction-title"> has the same functionality
>as BEGIN.
>
> which is currently not true because START TRANSACTION has additional
> options.
Then the that manual page should be fixed.
> The following
Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Hi all,
> why START TRANSACTION READ ONLY is allowed
> and not BEGIN READ ONLY ?
Seems it should be allowed so that BEGIN and START TRANSACTION behave
the same.
In fact, the BEGIN manual page says:
has the same functionality
as BEGIN.
which is currently not true
