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From: Ranen Goren <ranen@CS.HUJI.AC.IL>
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 18:02:06 +0300
From: Ranen Goren <ranen@CS.HUJI.AC.IL>


jean@gso.SAIC.COM (Jean Anderson) wrote:

...
> Does anybody know of a way to snag current transaction state from Postgres?
...

	Sure... Just PQexec("begin") and parse the output message
	to see if Postgres claims it is already in transaction mode :)
	If you really want to make it bulletproof, I guess
	you are inviting trouble. I have started to think about
	pressing the user's Help button ;)

		Ranen