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From: Michael Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>
To: andreas.zeugswetter@telecom.at
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: AW: [HACKERS] Begin statement again
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 13:57:02 +0100 (CET)
Message-ID: <199803201257.NAA14905@gauss.topsystem.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01BD5355.FB6D1EC0@pc9358.sd.spardat.at>

Zeugswetter Andreas writes:
> Oracle, like DB/2 can' t set it to on. The autocommit ***on***  in ORA ODBC is a trick.
> It simply silently adds commit once in a while (after every statement).

I know. The problem we were talking about was the automatic beginning of a
transaction. No need to say "begin work" it just starts.

> But please to make the vokabulary easy don't refer to begin, but to 'begin work'
> in this context. 'begin' will mean begin a statement block, not a transaction block.

I know that, too. But currently in postgresql begin means the same as begin
work. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Michael

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