START TRANSACTION(7) PostgreSQL 18.6 Documentation START TRANSACTION(7) NAME START_TRANSACTION - start 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 This command 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 executed. This is the same as the BEGIN command. PARAMETERS Refer to SET TRANSACTION (SET_TRANSACTION(7)) for information on the mean- ing 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. PostgreSQL'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 might offer an auto- commit feature as a convenience. The DEFERRABLE transaction_mode is a PostgreSQL language extension. The SQL standard requires commas between successive transaction_modes, but for historical reasons PostgreSQL allows the commas to be omitted. See also the compatibility section of SET TRANSACTION (SET_TRANSACTION(7)). SEE ALSO BEGIN(7), COMMIT(7), ROLLBACK(7), SAVEPOINT(7), SET TRANSACTION (SET_TRANS- ACTION(7)) PostgreSQL 18.6 2026 START TRANSACTION(7)
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