START TRANSACTION
Starts a transaction block.
Synopsis
START TRANSACTION [<transaction_mode>] [, ...]
-- where <transaction_mode> is one of:
ISOLATION LEVEL {SERIALIZABLE | REPEATABLE READ | READ COMMITTED | READ UNCOMMITTED}
READ WRITE | READ ONLY
[NOT] DEFERRABLE
Description
START TRANSACTION begins a new transaction block. If the isolation level, read/write mode, or deferrable mode is specified, the new transaction has those characteristics, as if SET TRANSACTION was run. This is the same as the BEGIN command.
Parameters
Refer to SET TRANSACTION for information on the meaning of the parameters to this statement.
Compatibility
In the standard, it is not necessary to issue START TRANSACTION to start a transaction block: any SQL command implicitly begins a block. Apache Cloudberry's behavior can be seen as implicitly issuing a COMMIT after each command that does not follow START TRANSACTION (or BEGIN), and it is therefore often called 'autocommit'. Other relational database systems may offer an autocommit feature as a convenience.
The DEFERRABLE transaction_mode is a Apache Cloudberry language extension.
The SQL standard requires commas between successive transaction_modes, but for historical reasons Apache Cloudberry allows the commas to be omitted.
See also the compatibility section of SET TRANSACTION.
