> > What about that doesn't make sense?  Having SET begin a transaction
> > seems like a gross violation of POLS and likely to contradict the spec
> > and cause problems with many applications.  -sc
> 
> I think we left the standard when we made SET rollbackable.  Maybe that
> has to be reopened because if we did that, it would make perfect sense
> because all SETs would be outside transactions.

Of course, the reason they're rollbackable is:

begin;
create schema newschema;
set search_path = newschema;
rollback;

create table junk;  -- DOH!

-- 
  Rod Taylor


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