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--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/begin.sgml
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/begin.sgml,v 1.14 2001/09/03 12:57:49 petere Exp $
-Postgres documentation
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/begin.sgml,v 1.15 2001/12/08 03:24:34 thomas Exp $
+PostgreSQL documentation
-->
<refentry id="SQL-BEGIN">
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ NOTICE: BEGIN: already a transaction in progress
</title>
<para>
- By default, <productname>Postgres</productname> executes transactions
+ By default, <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> executes transactions
in <firstterm>unchained mode</firstterm>
(also known as <quote>autocommit</quote> in other database
systems).
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ NOTICE: BEGIN: already a transaction in progress
<para>
The default transaction isolation level in
- <productname>Postgres</productname>
+ <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
is READ COMMITTED, where queries inside the transaction see only changes
committed before query execution. So, you have to use
<command>SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL SERIALIZABLE</command>
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ NOTICE: BEGIN: already a transaction in progress
</para>
<para>
- If the transaction is committed, <productname>Postgres</productname>
+ If the transaction is committed, <productname>PostgreSQL</productname>
will ensure either that all updates are done or else that none of
them are done. Transactions have the standard <acronym>ACID</acronym>
(atomic, consistent, isolatable, and durable) property.
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ BEGIN WORK;
<para>
<command>BEGIN</command>
- is a <productname>Postgres</productname> language extension.
+ is a <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> language extension.
There is no explicit <command>BEGIN</command>
command in <acronym>SQL92</acronym>;
transaction initiation is always implicit and it terminates either