Re: Suggestion: Issue warning when calling SET TRANSACTION outside transaction block

[ I'm so far behind ... ]

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> Applied.  Thank you for all your suggestions.

I thought the suggestion had been to issue a *warning*.  How did that
become an error?  This patch seems likely to break applications that
may have just been harmlessly sloppy about when they were issuing
SETs and/or what flavor of SET they use.  We don't for example throw
an error for START TRANSACTION with an open transaction or COMMIT or
ROLLBACK without one --- how can it possibly be argued that these
operations are more dangerous than those cases?

I'd personally have voted for using NOTICE.
        regards, tom lane