START TRANSACTION
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 will have those characteristics, as if SET TRANSACTION had been executed. This is the same as the BEGIN command.
Parameters
The meaning of these parameters for this statement can be found in SET TRANSACTION.