Re: Use of LOCAL in SET command

Has this been resolved?

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Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> > Sorry to nag about this so late, but I fear that the new command SET LOCAL
> > will cause some confusion later on.
> 
> Okay...
> 
> > SQL uses LOCAL to mean the local node in a distributed system (SET LOCAL
> > TRANSACTION ...) and the current session as opposed to all sessions (local
> > temporary table).  The new SET LOCAL command adds the meaning "this
> > transaction only".  Instead we could simply use SET TRANSACTION, which
> > would be consistent in behaviour with the SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL
> > command.
> 
> Hmm ... this would mean that the implicit parsing of SET TRANSACTION
> ISOLATION LEVEL would change (instead of SET / TRANSACTION ISOLATION
> LEVEL you'd now tend to read it as SET TRANSACTION / ISOLATION LEVEL)
> but I guess that would still not create any parse conflicts.  I'm okay
> with this as long as we can fix psql's command completion stuff to
> handle it intelligently.  I hadn't gotten round to looking at that point
> yet for the LOCAL case; do you have any thoughts?
> 
>             regards, tom lane
> 
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