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Simon Riggs wrote:
> Short patch to implement SQL standard behaviour of the SET TRANSACTION
> command. According to their publically accessible docs, I note that
> MySQL and Ingres correctly implement this behaviour, SQLServer does this
> also (and more), while Oracle and DB2 do so since they use implicit
> transaction blocks.
>
> Docs page updated.
>
> Manual tests OK. There isn't a test suite for SET TRANSACTION, so I
> haven't created one just for this. Behaviour is shown below; the SET
> command sets the session characteristics of the *next* transaction, when
> executed outside of a transaction block.
>
> postgres=# show transaction_read_only;
> transaction_read_only
> -----------------------
> off
> (1 row)
>
> postgres=# set transaction read only;
> SET
> postgres=# begin;
> BEGIN
> postgres=# show transaction_read_only;
> transaction_read_only
> -----------------------
> on
> (1 row)
>
> postgres=# commit;
> COMMIT
>
>
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> Simon Riggs
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