On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 19:22, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Hi all,
> why START TRANSACTION READ ONLY is allowed
> and not BEGIN READ ONLY ?
As Chris KL points out, it's not required by the standard (since BEGIN
isn't part of the standard to begin with). I suppose we could add it,
but it seems a little pointless -- "BEGIN ; SET ..." seems just as good.
-Neil