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From: jean@gso.SAIC.COM (Jean Anderson)
Subject: Re: portal renaming?
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Ranen Goren <ranen@CS.HUJI.AC.IL> writes:
> 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 ;)

That wouldn't be bad if I could suppress the warnings that are output to
the screen. I guess my users are more nervous than yours.

 -jean