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# START TRANSACTION

## 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 has those characteristics, as if [`SET TRANSACTION`](/15/reference/sql-commands/set-transaction.md) was executed. This is the same as the [`BEGIN`](/15/reference/sql-commands/begin.md) command.

### Parameters

Refer to [SET TRANSACTION](/15/reference/sql-commands/set-transaction.md) for information on the meaning 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 autocommit 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](/15/reference/sql-commands/set-transaction.md).

### See Also

[BEGIN](/15/reference/sql-commands/begin.md), [COMMIT](/15/reference/sql-commands/commit.md), [ROLLBACK](/15/reference/sql-commands/rollback.md), [SAVEPOINT](/15/reference/sql-commands/savepoint.md), [SET TRANSACTION](/15/reference/sql-commands/set-transaction.md)

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原文：[PostgreSQL 15.19 Documentation](/15/reference/sql-commands/start-transaction.md)（英文原文，待翻譯）


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