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| author | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi> | 2010-01-25 18:23:10 +0000 |
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| committer | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki.linnakangas@iki.fi> | 2010-01-25 18:23:10 +0000 |
| commit | 1d1f425f8d4331ecf09512386880af0827cd6091 (patch) | |
| tree | 538d3a13f05b8aa2b1b87bc67180fffd21bca790 /doc/src | |
| parent | e7dcfd05f3f0ac4c80d5bd26973a748230f9cbe1 (diff) | |
Add note that PREPARE TRANSACTION is for transaction managers, not
regular applications. Also add a comment pointing out that tab-complition
for PREPARE TRANSACTION is missing on purpose.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/src')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/src/sgml/ref/prepare_transaction.sgml | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/prepare_transaction.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/prepare_transaction.sgml index b8b8d8aca83..da304c72550 100644 --- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/prepare_transaction.sgml +++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/prepare_transaction.sgml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ <!-- -$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/prepare_transaction.sgml,v 1.9 2009/04/23 00:23:45 tgl Exp $ +$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/prepare_transaction.sgml,v 1.10 2010/01/25 18:23:10 heikki Exp $ PostgreSQL documentation --> @@ -83,6 +83,15 @@ PREPARE TRANSACTION <replaceable class="PARAMETER">transaction_id</replaceable> <title>Notes</title> <para> + <command>PREPARE TRANSACTION</> is not intended for use in applications + or interactive sessions. It's purpose is to allow an external + transaction manager to perform atomic global transactions across multiple + databases or other transactional resources. Unless you're writing a + transaction manager, you probably shouldn't be using <command>PREPARE + TRANSACTION</>. + </para> + + <para> This command must be used inside a transaction block. Use <xref linkend="sql-begin" endterm="sql-begin-title"> to start one. </para> |