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<REFENTRY ID="SQL-BEGINWORK-1">
<REFMETA>
<REFENTRYTITLE>
BEGIN WORK
</REFENTRYTITLE>
<REFMISCINFO>SQL - Language Statements</REFMISCINFO>
</REFMETA>
<REFNAMEDIV>
<REFNAME>
BEGIN WORK
</REFNAME>
<REFPURPOSE>
Begins a transaction
</REFPURPOSE>
<REFSYNOPSISDIV>
<REFSYNOPSISDIVINFO>
<DATE>1998-04-15</DATE>
</REFSYNOPSISDIVINFO>
<SYNOPSIS>
BEGIN { WORK | TRANSACTION }
</SYNOPSIS>
<REFSECT2 ID="R2-SQL-BEGINWORK-1">
<REFSECT2INFO>
<DATE>1998-04-15</DATE>
</REFSECT2INFO>
<TITLE>
Inputs
</TITLE>
<PARA>
</PARA>
<VARIABLELIST>
<VARLISTENTRY>
<TERM>
<ReturnValue>
None
</ReturnValue>
</TERM>
<LISTITEM>
<para></para>
</LISTITEM>
</varlistentry>
</VARIABLELIST>
</REFSECT2>
<REFSECT2 ID="R2-SQL-BEGINWORK-2">
<REFSECT2INFO>
<DATE>1998-04-15</DATE>
</REFSECT2INFO>
<TITLE>
Outputs
</TITLE>
<PARA>
</PARA>
<VARIABLELIST>
<VARLISTENTRY>
<TERM>
status
</TERM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>
<VARIABLELIST>
<VARLISTENTRY>
<TERM>
<ReturnValue>BEGIN</ReturnValue>
</TERM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>
This signifies that a new transaction has been started.
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
</VARLISTENTRY>
<VARLISTENTRY>
<TERM>
<ReturnValue>
NOTICE: BeginTransactionBlock and not in default state
</ReturnValue>
</TERM>
<LISTITEM>
<PARA>
This indicates that a transaction was already in progress.
<comment>
What happens to command queries already run
in the transaction? Does this have no effect, or does
it restart the transaction?
</comment>
</PARA>
</LISTITEM>
</VARLISTENTRY>
</variablelist>
</para>
</LISTITEM>
</VARLISTENTRY>
</VARIABLELIST>
</REFSECT2>
</REFSYNOPSISDIV>
<REFSECT1 ID="R1-SQL-BEGINWORK-1">
<REFSECT1INFO>
<DATE>1998-04-15</DATE>
</REFSECT1INFO>
<TITLE>
Description
</TITLE>
<para>
BEGIN begins a user transaction which PostgreSQL will
guarantee is serialisable with respect to all concurrently
executing transactions. PostgreSQL uses two-phase locking
to perform this task. If the transaction is committed,
PostgreSQL will ensure either that all updates are done orelse
that none of
them are done. Transactions have the standard ACID
(atomic, consistent, isolatable, and durable) property.
</para>
<REFSECT2 ID="R2-SQL-BEGINWORK-3">
<REFSECT2INFO>
<DATE>1998-04-15</DATE>
</REFSECT2INFO>
<TITLE>
Notes
</TITLE>
<PARA>
The keyword TRANSACTION is just a cosmetic alternative to WORK.
Neither keyword need be specified.
</PARA>
<PARA>
BEGIN statement is a PostgreSQL language extension.
</PARA>
<PARA>
Refer to the LOCK statement for further information about locking
tables inside a transaction.
</PARA>
<PARA>
Use COMMIT or ROLLBACK to terminate a transaction.
</PARA>
</REFSECT2>
<REFSECT1 ID="R1-SQL-BEGINWORK-2">
<TITLE>
Usage
</TITLE>
<PARA>To begin a user transaction:
</PARA>
<ProgramListing>
BEGIN WORK;
</ProgramListing>
</REFSECT1>
<REFSECT1 ID="R1-SQL-BEGINWORK-3">
<TITLE>
Compatibility
</TITLE>
<PARA>
</PARA>
<REFSECT2 ID="R2-SQL-BEGINWORK-4">
<REFSECT2INFO>
<DATE>1998-04-15</DATE>
</REFSECT2INFO>
<TITLE>
SQL92
</TITLE>
<PARA>
There is no explicit "BEGIN WORK" in SQL92; transaction initiation
is always implicit and it terminates either with a COMMIT or with
a ROLLBACK statement.
</PARA>
</refsect2>
</refsect1>
</REFENTRY>
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